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Book Launch: Oonya Kempadoo's "Naniki" – Repeating Islands

The Forum for Caribbean Writers and Readers presents the book launch of Naniki, the latest novel by Oonya Kempadoo. This event takes place on Friday, April 5, 2024, from 5:00 to 7:00pm (EDT), sponsored by the Centre for Caribbean Studies, Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, and co-sponsored by School of…

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52 works of Canadian fiction coming out in spring 2024

Check out these Canadian novels and short story collections coming out in spring 2024.

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Myth Conception: "Naniki" – Repeating Islands

Val Rwigema (Montreal Review of Books) reviews Oonya Kempadoo’s recently published novel, Naniki, calling it “a work of magic realism and Caribbean futurism” and “a love letter to the Caribbean and its light-flecked waters.” Here are excerpts; read the full review at mRb. [Also see our previous post New Book: Oonya Kempadoo’s “Naniki.”] Oonya Kempadoo’s recently…

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New Book: Oonya Kempadoo's "Naniki" – Repeating Islands

Can’t wait to read this exciting new book by Oonya Kempadoo, Naniki (Dundurn Press, January 2024). Junot Díaz (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) writes, “Time-bending, world-bending, heart-bending, Naniki is truly luminous … a lyrical spiritual Afro-Indigenous epic set in a climate ravaged Caribbean… two elemental beings, Amana and Skelele, must find their…

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Bocas Book Bulletin

WELCOME to the latest installment of the Bocas Book Bulletin, a monthly roundup of Caribbean literary news, curated by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival,

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Naniki Immersive: A Caribbean Storyworld

Naniki Immersive: A Caribbean Storyworld is described as “a 30-minute experience including carnival-cirque... wonder.” It takes place at the Concordia Black Box, Concordia University, EV Building, located at 1515 Ste-Catherine West, Montréal, Canada. The event will be followed by a post-show "lime." RSVP only. Due to the capacity of the venue, tickets are limited to 1…

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Tucson Weekly: Caribbean Splash (June 17

Oonya Kempadoo's Debut Novel Offers A Vivid Evocation Of Caribbean Community Life.
By Randall Holdridge
BUXTON SPICE
IS the first book by Oonya Kempadoo,
a London-born black woman who grew up in Guyana on the Caribbean
coast of South America. She lives now in Grenada. Although it's
called a novel,
Buxton Spice is really a series of roughly
autobiographical vignettes which offer a charming, and often frankly
erotic, picture of Kempadoo's Guyanese girlhood.
The narrator is Lula, the precocious 12-year-old daughter of
a racially mixed marriage. Lula is a shrewd observer of her neighborhood
in Tamarind Grove, a lush tropical township near the capital of

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