West Indian


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The Wine of Astonishment (Caribbean Writers Series)
A House for Mr Biswas
Miguel Street (Vintage International)
Green Days by the River (Caribbean Writers Series)
The God of Good Looks
The Girl with the Hazel Eyes
The Bread the Devil Knead
Ways of Sunlight (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)
Jumbie Bird (Longman Caribbean Writer Series)
Is Just a Movie
The Schoolmaster (Caribbean Writers Series)
Harriet's Daughter
Beka Lamb
Annie John
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysThe Long Song by Andrea LevyHavana Blue by Leonardo PaduraThe Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-ThompsonHavana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
Best West Indian Books
34 books — 13 voters
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonA Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. GainesDevil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Award-winning Black Fiction
53 books — 70 voters

The Girl Who Married a Skull by Kel McDonaldJustin by L.J. AlongeWhen You Were Everything by Ashley WoodfolkBalancing Act by Paula ChaseDjeliya by Juni Ba
Spotlight: Must Read Black YA/MG
70 books — 4 voters

Safiya Sinclair
The word "cannibal," the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word "Caribbean" originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all "West Indian" people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage. ...more
Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal

Shakirah Bourne
To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.
Shakirah Bourne, In Time of Need

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