These Ghosts Are Family
By: Maisy Card
3.66
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures ove…
Want to Read $ 12.99"I had thought the Christmas Rebellion an act of treason; now I saw that for those in bondage, violence was the only choice."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
"Even though they were just words, they built a world that she couldn’t stop thinking about, that she felt trapped inside every night."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
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3.91
Format: 2 pages, Hardcover
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2. Here Comes the Sun
By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
3.94
Format: 256 pages,
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3. 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
4. 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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5. Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)
By: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
4.40
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?" Questions like this sit between th… read more
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6. Pleasantview
By: Celeste Mohammed
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the suppos… read more
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7. The Mother Act
By: Heidi Reimer
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the complica… read more
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8. How to Love a Jamaican
By: Alexia Arthurs
3.85
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From a magnetic new voice, a debut story collection set in Jamaica and America for readers of Zadie… read more
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9. Frying Plantain
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more
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10. A Trace of Sun
By: Pam Williams
3.73
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she… read more
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11. We Are a Haunting
By: Tyriek White
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Following three generations of East New Yorkers; a debut, coming-of-age novel that mixes magical re… read more
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12. Things I Have Withheld
By: Kei Miller
4.48
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller exp… read more
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13. The Eternal Audience of One
By: Rémy Ngamije
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This coming-of-age tale follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda during the… read more
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"Isn't that what apologies are? Acknowledgment of guilt and shame. And the other person takes your wrongdoing and agrees to carry it and le t you be human again. That's why I don't believe weak people…"-Rémy Ngamije, The Eternal Audience of One
14. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
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3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in… read more
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15. These Ghosts Are Family
By: Maisy Card
3.66
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures ove… read more
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"I had thought the Christmas Rebellion an act of treason; now I saw that for those in bondage, violence was the only choice."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
"Even though they were just words, they built a world that she couldn’t stop thinking about, that she felt trapped inside every night."-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
16. The House of Plain Truth
By: Donna Hemans
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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17. The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh
By: Ingrid Persaud
4.17
Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk. Th… read more
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18. One Year of Ugly
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3.78
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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19. The Day I Fell Off My Island
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4.11
Format: 393 pages, ebook
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20. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
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3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more
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21. For Such a Time as This
By: Shani Akilah
4.12
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
Gabby and Daniel cross paths at the wedding of a mutual friend. They both wonder if this could be t… read more
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