Naniki, explores the musings and inner workings of the deep blue — the Caribbean Sea — and its shape-shifting sea beings through luminescent light, ancestral paths, and a Caribbean spirit-inflected world.
Longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shield’s Prize for Fiction, Finalist for the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award. CBC Books Best Canadian Fiction of 2024.
Dundurn Press, Rare Machines, 2024
All Decent Animals, looks at personal aesthetic choices and at the island of Trinidad, developing but rich, and aiming at ‘world class’ status amidst its poor, island cousins. Loyalties, love, conflicting cultures and creativity are central themes. An Oprah’s Summer Reading Pick.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux NY, USA, 2013
Tide Running, set in Tobago, is a vernacular account of a young Tobagonian’s intimate, ultimately disastrous intersection with a wealthy interracial couple and the predicament of a young society looking to America for fantasies and heroes. Winner of a Casa De Las Americas prize and longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Picador, Macmillan UK, 2001, Farrar Straus & Giroux, USA, 2003, Beacon Press USA, 2004
Buxton Spice, is a coming of age story set in the multi-racial society of Guyana disintegrating under a corrupt government. Buxton Spice was auctioned in London between major publishers. Long-listed for the Orange Prize, the novel was serialised for radio by BBC Radio 4 and published in five foreign languages.
Phoenix House, Orion UK 1998, Dutton/Plume, USA 1999, Beacon Press USA, 2004
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