Mr. Lowe lives the simple and happy life of a shopkeeper. A Chinese immigrant to Jamaica in the 1890s, Lowe revels in the lush beauty of his adoptive land. But the past confronts Lowe in everything he does, and so his history reveals itself-the tale ...
After receiving a call from Detective Murray with the Culver Park Police Department in California, Melissa Parker is shocked to learn the news of her Aunt May’s murder. Tasked with telling her twin sister Jessica, and their older sister, Sarah, the...
From a major voice in Caribbean literature -- this is a story of Gwennie Glaspole, a schoolteacher trapped in an unhappy marriage, fighting to resist Jamaican cultural expectations and for her independenceA new edition of the “remarkable first nove...
It's 1978, and Dale Singleton is becoming alarmed as his friend, Ian Kaysen, is afflicted with a mysterious and seemingly untreatable illness characterized by pneumonia, lesions, and dementia. This novel of the first days of AIDS is viscerally affect...
Shortlisted for the Guyana Prize Caribbean Award 2011. When Winston receives a telegram informing him of his father's imminent death, his decision to return to Jamaica is very reluctant. The memories opened up by his return tell us why. But tw...