Breath, Eyes, Memory
Edwidge Danticat’s first novel is a textured portrayal of the complexities of familial bonds and cultural ties, told through a young Haitian girl’s eyes, as she navigates new territories in New York, in her family and in her own identity.
The Farming of Bones
A work of historical fiction, bringing to life the 1937 Parsley genocidal massacre in the Dominican Republic, ordered by dictator Rafael Trujillo, through the narratorial voice of Amabelle Desir, a Haitian orphan living in the DR.
The Arrivants: Rights of Passage, Islands, Masks – A New World Trilogy
Green Days by the River
A coming of age story about Shell, who quickly matures against the backdrop of lush Mayaro village life and learns about love, friendship and responsibility.
A Regarded Self
A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Duke University Press), by US scholar Kaiama L. Glover, is an insightful study of “unruly female protagonists” in Caribbean fiction “who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities…. The women of these texts” — novels by authors such as Marie Chauvet, Maryse Condé, Jamaica […]
Caribbean Literature in Transition
Caribbean Literature in Transition (Cambridge University Press) is a substantial scholarly collection with a broad historical range, its three volumes covering the periods 1800–1921 (edited by Evelyn O’Callaghan and Tim Watson), 1920–1970 (edited by Raphael Dalleo and Curdella Forbes), and 1970–2020 (edited by Ronald Cummings and Alison Donnell). It brings together themed chapters by a […]
Pandemic Poems
Pandemic Poems: First Wave (self-published), the latest book by esteemed Jamaican writer Olive Senior, collects a sequence of new poems composed in 2020, and originally posted on social media. “Each poem is a riff on a word or phrase trending in the first wave of the pandemic — an A to Z of the lexicon […]
The Vanishing Girls
The Vanishing Girls (Black Coral Publishing), a novel by Barbadian Callie Browning, is a crime thriller featuring a mortician protagonist whose funeral home is tasked with managing the bodies of the victims of a serial killer — and who solves the mystery of the killer’s identity when the police prove helpless.
Blue Mountain Trouble
Culture and Customs of Jamaica
De Rightest Place
Free
Fault Lines
High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture
Is Just a Movie
Madwoman
Oracabessa
Sounding Ground
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Walk Back in Time: Snapshots of the History of Trinidad and Tobago
Archipelago
As Flies to Whatless Boys
Cannibal
George Price: A Life Revealed
Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
The Gymnast and Other Positions
The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays
Wife
Writing Down the Vision: Essays and Prophecies
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
