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See Now Then
by Jamaica Kincaid
In this beautifully haunting novel about marriage and family from the acclaimed author of Autobiography of My Mother, a mother and father and their two children, living in a small village in New England, move, in their own minds, between the present, the past and the future.
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Brown Girl, Brownstones
by Paule Marshall
Selina Boyce, the daughter of immigrants from Barbados, becomes aware of her passions as she grows to womanhood in Brooklyn and experiences the conflict between two cultures.
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The Book of Night Women
by Marlon James
Feared from birth for her vivid green eyes, which her fellow slaves believe to be evidence of her dark powers, young slave Lilith is both revered and avoided throughout her childhood and becomes a key in the success of a long-planned slave revolt.
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Children of Paradise
by Fred D'Aguiar
After following a charismatic preacher to the jungles of Guyana, Joyce and her young daughter, Trina, are desperate to break free of the commune before the inevitable mass suicide and attempts a daring escape with the help of a local boat captain and an extraordinary gorilla named Adam.
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Here Comes the Sun
by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Working as a prostitute near the pristine beaches and turquoise seas of Jamaica to pay for a younger sister's education, Margot hopes that a new hotel that is reshaping her home will grant her financial independence and allow her to pursue a forbidden affair with another woman.
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Everything Inside: Stories
by Edwidge Danticat
A single-volume collection of short stories by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Brother, I’m Dying is set in such locales as Miami, Port-au-Prince and the Caribbean and poignantly explores the forces that unite and divide.
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God Loves Haiti
by Dimitry Elias Léger
A young artist, Natasha Robert, living in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, adjusts to life after the devastating earthquake of 2010 hits the city, and wonders if she will ever again see her true love, Alain Destiné, who was injured during the natural disaster.
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The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
by Marcia Douglas
Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down, Bob Marley, sleeping in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching, encounters the ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII, and tries to return to his long-ago love, the deaf woman Leenah.
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Land of Love and Drowning
by Tiphanie Yanique
Chronicles the families of three siblings who survived a shipwreck off the Virgin Islands in 1916 and raised three generations on the islands, adapting to the unique language, rhythm and magic of island life over 60 years.
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Moving Forward Sideways Like A Crab
by Shani Mootoo
At age nine, Jonathan's mother, Sid, disappears from his life. As an adult, he finally reconnects with the mother he has always loved, but she has changed. She is now, Sydney, a sophisticated man. Jonathan struggles with both confusion and anger at the choices Sydney has made, but tries with eager hope to understand.
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