Ayanna Lloyd Banwo | Trinidad and Tobago This is a story about death; the rituals, respect, and reverence that every person who dies, deserves. But it’s also a story about love; two young people who are standing on parallel sides of death who are destined to meet and be each other’s anchor. And it’s also…

Diana McCaulay | Jamaica I had never heard the term climate fiction until I read Daylight Come. My knee-jerk reaction was it would be similar to the sci-fi-type movies about the end of the world, featuring some reclusive scientist who makes a happen-stance discovery about something cataclysmic. The authorities ignore their warning until an asteroid…

Marisel Vera | Puerto Rico I’m a lover of historical fiction, but admittedly I’m picky about the titles I read and enjoy. So when this book came on my radar I was excited to add it to my collection. Although Puerto Rico is technically considered a U. S. territory, it’s geographic location in the Greater…

Kei Miller | Jamaica It’s hard not to have anything but respect for Kei Miller’s writing. When an author has multiple books, I tend not to fuss on which book I start reading first but with Miller I felt the need to be strategic. I took my time researching the books I was interested in…

Celeste Mohammed | Trinidad and Tobago I first discovered this book around Mother’s Day and I gifted myself that entire Sunday to lay on my couch and read this book from cover to cover (I rarely, if ever, read a book in a day). I was going through a 6-week reading slump but this impressive…

Ingrid Persaud | Trinidad and Tobago Ingrid Persaud NAILED the Trini dialect in this book! If I love nothing else, I LOVED the way she captured how we speak, how we picong (joke) with one another, the entire vibe of Trinidad was spot on. Persaud has written a book that is wholesome in its exploration…

Myriam J. A. Chancy | Haiti I read this book as carefully as I could, then I closed my eyes and breathed deep. I felt sadness and gratefulness. I felt like I had just been given a gift of some sort, but I couldn’t figure out what or why. I walked around with a feeling…

Edwidgde Danticat | Haiti Amabelle and Sebastien are young lovers living in a small village on the Dominican side of the river that divides Haiti from the Dominican Republic. Though there has always been tensions between the races, new rumors are circulating of Haitians being killed by the Dominican military. But on the day Sebastian…

Chanel Cleeton | Cuba In 1958 in Cuba, Elisa is 19 and a wealthy heiress to a fortune in sugar. Her family is at the top of Cuba’s elite society and has close ties to the president, Baptista. But there is—and has been for many decades—economic, political, and social strife in Cuba. But it’s not…

Cherie Jones | Barbados I didn’t realize it while I was reading it, or even after I was done, but Cherie Jones has written a truly heart-wrenching, honest, and thought-provoking novel that exposes the things-we-don’t-talk-about because we live in paradise. This book hit me hard and in a very personal way after I read it,…