Selected Caribbean Womens Fiction
Explore a curated collection of Caribbean women's fiction featuring powerful stories and voices from the region. Discover must-read novels and authors celebrating Caribbean culture and female perspectives.
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The Farming of Bones
by Edwidge Danticat
Memorializing the forgotten victims of ethnic cleansing in Haiti in the 1930s, this novel revolves around a Haitian-born servant girl and her lover, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, as they struggle against the violence.
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Villa Fair
by Bernadette Dyer
Exotica and the paranormal touch the lives of Dyers characters, both Jamaican immigrants grappling with life in Canada and residents of Jamaica itself.
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Unburnable
by Marie-Elena John
Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian Baptiste fled Dominica when she was fourteen after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy woman whose life was told of in chanté mas songs sung during Carnival—songs about a village on a mountaintop littered with secrets, masquerades that supposedly fly and wreak havoc, and a man who suddenly and mysteriously dropped dead. After twenty years away, Lillian returns to her native island to face the demons of her past—and with the help of Teddy, a man who has loved her for many years, she may yet find a way to heal. Set in both contemporary Washington, D.C., and post-World War II Dominica, Unburnable weaves together West Indian history, African culture, and American sensibilities. Richly textured and lushly rendered, Unburnable showcases a welcome and assured new voice.
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The Drifting of Spirits
by Gisèle Pineau
Set in Guadeloupe, this novel traces the rise an fall of man under the mocking eye of the spirits who roam the land, drifting between light and darkness, between happiness and misery, between love and death.
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The Roads are Down
by Vanessa Spence
This is a deceptively simple tale of the hazardous and uncharted battle zones between gender, culture, and race.