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Caribbean Reading
18
items Journey your way through Caribbean History, Culture and People with me one Book at a Time
Sections
6
Trinidadian
Jamaican
Barbadian
Guyanese
Haitian
Grenadian
Trinidadian
Books by authors of Trinidadian descent
This is a captivating book with an intriguing narrative that revolves around a powerful feminist message. It is atmospheric and enchanting. It deftly addresses racism and gender violence while exploring an abusive love affair with devastating honesty...
The Bread the Devil Knead
Everything about this book!
The Cover!
Enemies to Lovers.
Which means lots of interaction and sexual tension. I loved the representation in this book. Although the setting is in the Caribbean they have added LGBTQA representation. The banter, sexual tension and straight-up smut was so good I didn't want to ...
The Cover!
Enemies to Lovers.
Which means lots of interaction and sexual tension. I loved the representation in this book. Although the setting is in the Caribbean they have added LGBTQA representation. The banter, sexual tension and straight-up smut was so good I didn't want to ...
Sweethand (Island Bites)
Collection of Short Stories.
Realistic representation of True Caribbean Life.
Small-town living.
Simple Characters and the connection webbed due to life choices.
Misunderstood life choices.
Hopes and Fears.
Immigration and craving more.
Family bonds and how they can be broken.
I was truly invested in these characters and their circumstances.
Realistic representation of True Caribbean Life.
Small-town living.
Simple Characters and the connection webbed due to life choices.
Misunderstood life choices.
Hopes and Fears.
Immigration and craving more.
Family bonds and how they can be broken.
I was truly invested in these characters and their circumstances.
Pleasantview
A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love.
Golden Child: A Novel
Collection of Short Stories
The Trinidad of her stories is utterly contemporary but also a place defined by its folk mythologies and its cultural creations, its traditions of masking and disguises. Her stories confront the increasing economic and cultural divisions between rich...
Their daring is that they look both within the human psyche and back in time to make sense of this reality.
The Trinidad of her stories is utterly contemporary but also a place defined by its folk mythologies and its cultural creations, its traditions of masking and disguises. Her stories confront the increasing economic and cultural divisions between rich...
Their daring is that they look both within the human psyche and back in time to make sense of this reality.
Where There Are Monsters
In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn’t expect: a mermaid by the name of Aycayia. Once a beautiful young woman, she was cursed by jealous wives to live in this form for the rest of her days. Bu...
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A novel
A mythic love story set in Trinidad. A spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal.
When We Were Birds: A Novel
One Year of Ugly is about the Palacio family, who are originally from Venezuela but fled the country to start a new life in the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The family finds out that Aunt Celia lied about the legality of their immigra...
One Year of Ugly: A Novel
Jamaican
Books by authors of Jamaican descent
Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communit...
How to Love a Jamaican: Stories
Would you love the sun if it could kill?
The year 2084, this book, set in a fictional Caribbean island, the sun is so hot that it kills. People need to sleep during the day and work or go out at night. There is no living - only SURVIVAL.
Water, Food and the Internet are luxuries.
Though fictional, Daylight Comes brings awareness to climate change and how our “little” actions can contribute to overall destruction. And suitably so as the author, Diana McCaulay, is an Environmental Activists in Jamaica.
The year 2084, this book, set in a fictional Caribbean island, the sun is so hot that it kills. People need to sleep during the day and work or go out at night. There is no living - only SURVIVAL.
Water, Food and the Internet are luxuries.
Though fictional, Daylight Comes brings awareness to climate change and how our “little” actions can contribute to overall destruction. And suitably so as the author, Diana McCaulay, is an Environmental Activists in Jamaica.
Daylight Come
The book explores themes such as motherhood, religion, mother-daughter relationship, immigration, and identity.
Patsy: A Novel
Barbadian
Books by authors of Barbadian descent
In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. It’s a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter’s Tunnels. When she’s grown, Lala lives on the beach w...
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novel
Guyanese
Books by authors of Guyanese descent
After the Emancipation Act of 1834 came into effect, the cries of joy fall silent when the plantation master announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. F...
Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children—the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the...
Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children—the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the...
River Sing Me Home
Haitian
Books by authors of Haitian descent
Hadriana in All My Dreams, takes place primarily during Carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. A beautiful young French woman, Hadriana, is about to marry a Haitian boy from a prominent family. But on the morning of the wedding, Hadriana ...
Transformed into a zombie, her wedding becomes her funeral. She is buried by the town, revived by an evil sorcerer, then disappears into popular legend. Set against a backdrop of magic and eroticism, and recounted with delirious humor, the novel rais...
The reader comes away enchanted by the marvelous reality of Haiti’s Vodou culture and convinced of Depestre’s lusty claim that all beings―even the undead ones―have a right to happiness and true love.
Transformed into a zombie, her wedding becomes her funeral. She is buried by the town, revived by an evil sorcerer, then disappears into popular legend. Set against a backdrop of magic and eroticism, and recounted with delirious humor, the novel rais...
The reader comes away enchanted by the marvelous reality of Haiti’s Vodou culture and convinced of Depestre’s lusty claim that all beings―even the undead ones―have a right to happiness and true love.
Hadriana in All My Dreams
Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and―at the same time―an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human sp...
What Storm, What Thunder
Set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, here are eight emotionally absorbing stories, rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity. At once wide in scope and intimate, Everything Inside explores ...
Everything Inside: Stories (Reese's Book Club)
Told with power and frankness, Village Weavers confronts the silences around class, race, and nationality, charts the moments when lives are irrevocably forced apart, and envisions two girls―connected their entire lives―who try to break inherited cyc...
Village Weavers
Grenadian
Books by authors of Grenadian descent
‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she bent over him; held him to her thumping chest. Tears sliding from her face to his.Raef is left behind in Grenada when his mother, Cilla, follows her h...
A Trace Of Sun