June is Caribbean American Heritage Month! Why not check out one of these great books by Caribbean American authors?
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Black cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson Two estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mother's life story and fulfill her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake--when the time is right. |
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Afterlife
by Julia Alvarez Reeling from her beloved husband's sudden death in the wake of her retirement, an immigrant writer is further derailed by the reappearance of her unstable sister and an entreaty for help by a pregnant undocumented teen. |
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Black leopard, red wolf
by Marlon James Hired to find a mysterious boy who disappeared three years before, Tracker joins a search party that follows the boy's trail through ancient cities and into dense forests, and encounter creatures intent on destroying them |
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The book of lost saints
by Daniel Jose Older Visited by an ancestral spirit who would have him unearth family secrets from the Cuban Revolution, a young Cuban-American embarks on an investigation marked by ghostly helpers, a new love, a murderous gangster and changes in his sense of identity. |
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Family Lore
by Elizabeth Acevedo Follows the lives of several generations of women in the Marte family after gathering to honor Flor, who can predict the day someone will die, decides to throw herself a huge party as a living wake. |
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If I survive you
by Jonathan Escoffery Fleeing to Miami after political violence consumes their native Kingston, a younger son of a Jamaican family, Trelawny, struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism and flat-out bad luck, clawing himself out of homelessness with a series of odd, often hilarious jobs. |
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In the Dream House : A Memoir
by Carmen Maria Machado The award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties shares the story of her relationship with an abusive partner and how it was shaped by her religious upbringing, her sexual orientation and inaccurate cultural beliefs about psychological trauma. |
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Queen of exiles : a novel
by Vanessa Riley Based on the life of Haiti's Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid, who escaped a coup in Haiti to set up her own royal court in Italy during the Regency era, where she became a popular member of royal European society. |
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These ghosts are family : a novel
by Maisy Card A man on his deathbed reveals that he stole another man’s identity decades earlier, traces the family’s history from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem and reconnects with the firstborn daughter he never knew. A first novel. |
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When trying to return home : stories
by Jennifer Maritza McCauley Digging deeply into the question of belonging, this profoundly moving debut collection of stories, spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life, follow an unforgettable cast of characters as they form a web of desire and consequences spanning generations. |