Other Worlds (Penguin Random House Canada) by André Alexis takes its reader on a narrative and stylistic saga, introducing them to a Trinidadian Obeah man, a writer saddled with an unusual caretaker’s position, and a host of inventive characters. The short stories that comprise Other Worlds are by turns playful and transgressive, using both Western and non-Western modes of storytelling to make their propositions come alive. Though global in their reach, Trinidadianness remains central to the workings of many of Alexis’s short stories in the collection, as the island’s people move across space and time.