So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans

✍ Scribed by Laughlin, Nicholas; Imoja, Nailah Folami

• Book ID: 110286521
• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 586 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781617756702

✦ Synopsis

Collecting new fiction, essays, and poems from seventeen countries around the world, So Many Islands brings us stories about love and protest, about childhood innocence and the traumas of history, about leaving home and trying to return. These writers's island homes may seem remote on the map, but there is nothing isolated about their compelling, fresh voices.

Featuring contributions by authors from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Cyprus, Grenada, Jamaica, Kiribati, Malta, Mauritius, Niue, Rotuma (Fiji), Samoa, Singapore, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tonga, and Trinidad and Tobago. So Many Islands is the fourth publication of Peekash Press, an imprint of Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press, committed to supporting the emergence of new Caribbean writing, and as part of the CaribLit project.

From the introduction by Marlon James:

_I wonder if it is because we island people are surrounded by sea, hemmed in and branching out at once,...