Celebrate Caribbean-American Heritage Month with Books
Monday, June 6, 2016, 1:26 p.m.Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central LibraryStaff Picks
Celebrate Caribbean-American Heritage Month with Books
In Celebration on Caribbean-American Heritage Month, enjoy a sampling works from the library's collection:
Antigua and Barbuda: Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
Barbados: Paule Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones
Cuba: Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls
Dominica: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Dominican Republic: Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Grenada: Tobias Buckell, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures
Guadeloupe: Maryse Condé, Victoire: My Mother’s Mother
Haiti: Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
Jamaica: Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads
Martinique: Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco
Puerto Rico: Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican
St. Kitts and Nevis: Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
St. Martin: Lasana Sekou, Images in the Yard
Trinidad and Tobago: Merle Hodge, For the Life of Laetitia
Virgin Islands: Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape From a Leper Colony