A Plethora of Dead Ends (Notion Press) by Lance Dowrich — winner of the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region — is a short fiction collection with a comic twist, examining the twists and absurdities of life in the contemporary Caribbean. His main character, Ethelbert G. Sandiford, “navigates through his dead-end life with a mixture of luck and ingenuity” — resulting in chuckles for the reader.