by Jamaica Kincaid | Antigua and Barbuda
Lucy has left the West Indies for a job in New York, but she discovers that her employers' perfect lives are not what they seem.
by Jamaica Kincaid | Antigua & Barbuda
As she bears witness to the sweeping corruption, dilapidated buildings and shameful legacy of Antigua's colonial past, the author compels us to think about the people behind the beautiful landscape of this tiny island.
by Ian G. Strachan | Bahamas
This coming-of-age novel, traces the lives of Tree Bodies and his three brothers as they grow up in the streets of Pompey Village, an area of extreme poverty hidden from the tourists who populate the luxury hotels. Creole conversation lends a distinct flavour.
by Karen Lord | Barbados
A re-telling of a Senegalese folktale. Paama is presented with a gift from the undying ones: the Chaos Stick, which allows her to manipulate the subtle forces of the world.
by Mayra Montero | Cuba
Havana, 1957. On the same day that a Mafia capo is assassinated in a barber’s chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, a young Cuban journalist instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo’s death and the mobster’s when a secretive zookeeper whispers to him that he “knows too much.”
by Phyllis Shand Allfrey | Dominica
Lally helps to raise three white sisters in the Orchid House on the Island of Dominica and observes as each flees to the cold northern lands of England and America only to return to their magical past and the man they love.
by Junot Diaz | Dominican Republic
Oscar, an overweight Dominican from a New Jersey ghetto, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but Fuku, the curse has haunted his family for generations, may well prevent him from attaining his desires.
by Merle Collins | Grenada
The novel focuses on Carib, a woman whose voice is a monument to the bravery of her forgotten Carib ancestors. Regarded as mad by the islanders, she stimulates the remembering of their intricate history thereby helping their understanding of the spirits living inside of them.
by Dany Laferrière | Haiti
A black writer from Montreal sells a book with only a title; when he can't write the story and starts living it he becomes a celebrity until things start to go wrong.
by Roxane Gay | Haiti
Mireille Duval Jameson is a rich and self-assured Haitian woman who is kidnapped by a gang of heavily armed men. Held captive by a man who calls himself the Commander, Mireille must endure his torment until her unwilling father pays up.
by Marlon James | Jamaica
Lilith was born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they--and she--will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link.
by Caryl Phillips | St. Kitts and Nevis
A story about three black people during different time periods and in different continents as they struggle with the separation from their native Africa. The novel follows Nash, who travels from America to Africa to educate natives about Christ; Martha, an old woman who attempts to travel from Virginia to California to escape the injustices of being a slave; and Travis, a member of the U.S. military who goes to England during World War II
by H. Nigel Thomas | Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
When Joshua Éclair emerges from amnesia in a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, he must explore what makes him want to erase his identity. In the painful process that follows, he is forced to relive his past in the fictional Caribbean island of Isabella, and learns to forgive.
by V. S. Naipaul | Trinidad and Tobago
Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream that sustains Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family.
by Monique Roffey | Trinidad and Tobago
When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England, George is immediately seduced by the beguiling island, while Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill-at-ease. As they adapt to new circumstances, their marriage endures for better or worse, despite growing political unrest and racial tensions that affect their daily lives. But when George finds a cache of letters that Sabine has hidden from him, the discovery sets off a devastating series of consequences as other secrets begin to emerge.