River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
Stunning, deeply-moving, affecting, and filled with hope! Eleanor Shearer’s debut novel is a testament to mother’s love, a redemptive story! River Sing Me Home is a sprawling debut novel set during the 1834s that takes us to Barbados, British Guiana (now Guyana) and Trinidad and Tobago. The book opens with Rachel, an enslaved mother, running […]
FORTUNE by Amanda Smyth
Fortune is set in 1920S Trinidad and Tobago, during the oil boom, when oil was seen as the black gold. The book opens with Eddie Wade truck breaking down on his way to Port of Spain where he is going to get investors to invest in an oil drilling project. As luck would have it, […]
The Spectacular by Zoe Whittall
“Motherhood is a mental illness” -Ramona from the movie Hustlers The book opens with twenty-two years old Missy, who is a cellist in an indie rock band that is about to go on Tour, wanting to get her tubes tied. She wants to have the freedom of going on tour without having to worry about […]
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
This book explores grief and what it is like to grieve in such a nuanced way. The book opens with Cassandra who is twelve and her brother Wayne who is seven heading to the beach to play. They do this regularly, just a normal day- until Wayne goes for a swim and his body is […]
Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein
Atmospheric, immersive, un-put-down-able, truly impressive storytelling from a Caribbean voice you will want to hear from again…and again…. Hungry Ghosts opens with four boys doing a blood pact that will make them brothers for the rest of their lives. Do they know what this pact means? How will it impact their individual lives? That is exactly […]
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell
Truly an unforgettable read that explores father-daughter relationship Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell opens with Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old ladies man and trumpet player finding out that one of his long time woman, and the one he loves the most-Maggie, is expecting their child. Circus does what he does best, he left her, […]
The Islands by Dionne Irving
Solid collection that explores Jamaicans living in Jamaica and around the world- well written and deeply insightful The Islands is a collection of ten short stories that explores immigration, classism, the effects of colonialism and Jamaicans trying to seek a better life in the diaspora. Truly this was a great collection, majority of them I absolutely […]
Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elamin Abdelmahmoud
It took two stopovers and nineteen hours of total flying time for me to become Black Son of Elsewhere is Elamin Abdelmahmoud memoir told in pieces about leaving behind his live in Sudan to live in Canada. We read of his father leaving because of prosecution to find refugee in Switzerland but got turned away […]
Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman
A lot of teeth… zero bite If this book was a show- it would be Girls, if this book was a person it would be Lena Dunham. The girls that get it, get it, the girls that don’t don’t This read like a very subpar first draft of My Year Of Rest and Relaxation if I am being […]
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