Celebrate the rich history, lives, and experiences of Caribbean people. All of these novels are written by authors who are either from the Caribbean or who have Caribbean ancestry.
Set in 1830s Barbados, in the wake of emancipation (that doesn’t look so different from slavery), Rachel begins a desperate search to find her five children who were sold as slaves. Her journey takes her across the Caribbean, from Barbados to…
Set in Toronto’s “Little Jamaica” neighborhood (Eglinton West), this is a collection of 12 interrelated stories about a girl who is caught in the middle - in the middle of girlhood and adulthood, in the middle of being Canadian and Jamaican, and…
When 60-something author Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she decides to create a “graveyard” for her unfinished manuscripts where she can lay her characters to rest. But instead, various characters emerge from…
In a fictional town in Trinidad, Yejide is wrestling with a family legacy - the women in her family trace their lineage back to carrion birds and it’s their role to usher the spirits of the dead into the afterlife. She meets Darwin, who has taken a…
Abel Paisley left his home in Jamaica, faked his death, and started a new life in New York. Nearing the end of his life, he decides to bring his old and new families together to reveal his secret. This is a multigenerational story that traces a…
Luz Alana Heith-Benzan is a rum heiress from the Dominican Republic, who is trying to create a European market for her family’s rum. James “Evan” Sinclair is a whiskey heir from Scotland who must marry to inherit his mother’s distillery. A marriage…
In 1830s Barbados, eleven-year-old slave George Washington Black (“Wash”) cuts sugar cane under the watchful eye of a sadistic plantation owner. His life is changed when he’s chosen to be the manservant and protege of his owner’s nephew. Wash learns…
In Caribbean folklore, a soucouyant is a being that wears the skin of an old woman by day and the form of a fireball at night, where it wanders around sucking the blood of its victims. In this coming-of-age story, a young man returns to his home in…
This novel is a multi-generational saga about a family who runs a beachfront hotel in Barbados. Loosely inspired by Greek mythology, the story begins in 1962 with Iapetus, who roams the island after witnessing his brother Cronus murder his father.…
A swashbuckling tale set in the golden age of Caribbean piracy. Jacquotte Delahaye, daughter of an exiled Frenchman and a freed Haitian black woman, begins her life of piracy as an indentured servant. As she navigates this new world, full of…
Trinidad in the 1940s. Dalton and Marlee Changoor live a luxurious life on a hill above town, in sharp contrast to the grinding poverty of the Saroop family in the crumbling remains of a sugarcane barracks below. When Dalton disappears under…
Chef Kamilah Vega has a plan to update her family’s Puerto Rican restaurant in Chicago. Liam Kane is on the verge of making something out of his family’s Irish whiskey distillery. Their only obstacles? Their respective grandfathers, who have decided…
