What Storm, What Thunder
By: Myriam J. A. Chancy
3.98
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an …
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By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
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"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
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2. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
3. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
4. Rootless
By: Krystle Zara Appiah
3.83
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more
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5. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
6. The God of Good Looks
By: Breanne Mc Ivor
3.92
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding… read more
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7. Hungry Ghosts
By: Kevin Jared Hosein
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding… read more
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"Sorrow felt selfish."-Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts
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By: Jasmine Sealy
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the pas… read more
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9. Pleasantview
By: Celeste Mohammed
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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10. What Storm, What Thunder
By: Myriam J. A. Chancy
3.98
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
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11. When We Were Birds
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3.79
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
A mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two u… read more
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12. The Secrets of Catspraddle Village
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4.06
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. How to Love a Jamaican
By: Alexia Arthurs
3.85
Format: 256 pages, ebook
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14. Things I Have Withheld
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4.48
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
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3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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4.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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3.76
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
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4.11
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3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"How we diminished her and in turn ourselves. Turned parts of her body into heavy burdens to carry. Watching. Tittering (we no longer laughed, from then on it was tittering). Commenting. Losing our co…"-Rion Amilcar Scott, The World Doesn't Require You
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21. Book of the Little Axe
By: Lauren Francis-Sharma
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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