Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean

✍ Scribed by Press, Peekash

• Book ID: 108785996
• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 134 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"This wonderful anthology of fresh voices from the Caribbean...includes writers from Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. The diverse textures of the stories by 13 established and new authors weave a tapestry of the islands, water, sand, ocean breeze, and rum. Vivid settings serve as backdrops for a dazzling display of personalities."
--Booklist
"The wonder in these stories is that they show Caribbean culture--the people, sounds, food, and music...this book will appeal to readers of Caribbean fiction and beyond."
--Library Journal
"One of my favorite reads of the last few months...sophisticated and engrossing...A big recommendation today for one and all."
--Chicago Center for Literature & Photography
"[Pepperpot] leaps headfirst into audacious narrative water, sustaining a diversity in storytelling that's indicative of the panoply of ways to love,...