Jamaican


A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Sun Is Also a Star
Here Comes the Sun
How to Say Babylon
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
Patsy
The Book of Night Women
Queenie
How to Love a Jamaican
Small Island
Everything, Everything
Augustown
The Long Song
If I Survive You
These Ghosts Are Family
Talk Sweetly to Me by Courtney MilanEvery Last Breath by Juno RushdanNo Turning Back by Neva Squires-RodriguezBlood Bound by Patricia BriggsAn Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
Romance - Women of Colour
139 books — 35 voters
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du MaurierA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard HughesTell My Horse by Zora Neale HurstonJamaica's Find by Juanita HavillSongbirds by Heather Augustyn
Jamaica or Jamaican in the Title
111 books — 11 voters

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysA High Wind in Jamaica by Richard HughesThe Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-ThompsonThe Secret Pact by Glen CartyOne Week in Paradise by Anise Starre
Set in Jamaica
41 books — 19 voters

Anansi Boys by Neil GaimanBrother Anancy and Other Stories by Andrew SalkeyAge of Anansi by James LovegroveAnancy Stories by Everal Emanuel McKenzieAnansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott
Anansi/Anancy in the Title
10 books — 4 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFacing the Son by M.L. RudolphBuck by M.K. AsanteNightmare Along the River Nile by S.E. Nelson
Africa and the Diaspora
153 books — 73 voters

Crystal Evans
I don't keep women friends for too long largely because i do not trust them and i hate gossip. A lot of times i am on the inside looking out and people say if women are avoiding me then it means something is wrong with me and not with them. I look at these female cliques and the lies, pretense and backbiting that keeps them glued together and decide that i want no part of that. ...more
Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis

Crystal Evans
There is a marked difference between brilliance and intellectuality. Some of us use both words interchangeably to describe people who can use big words. A number of people are grandiloquent but not wise. A person can be verbose but not esoteric. Just as literacy does not equate to intelligence. There are two types of learnt people in the world. Some persons are scholars and others are alchemist. Let me further my thesis on intellectuals. Now you have a scholar and an alchemist. The sc ...more
Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis

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