Authors of Trinidad & Tobago..

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Comment by Angela Patsy on January 21, 2009 at 8:04pm

Just think its appropriate to read something, at this time, written by President Barack Obama. He has 2 books published, but I am reading the first one, entitled: out..:Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance. Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention! In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father-- a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man-- has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey-- first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Want to read along with me?

Comment by Angela Patsy on May 22, 2008 at 7:16pm

Bruised Hibiscus
by Elizabeth Nunez...Second book, by my now favorite Trinbagonian authoress...A must read. Elizabeth gets you feel so close to her characters that once the book is over, you actually miss them. Her use of the local words, food and sayings help a great deal to make you become part of the story and draw a better picture in your imagination.. The year is 1954. A white woman’s body, stuffed in a coconut bag, has washed ashore in Otatiti, Trinidad, and the British colony is rife with rumors. In two homes, one in a distant shantytown, the other on the outskirts of a former sugar cane estate, two women hear the news and their blood runs cold. Rosa, the white daughter of a landowner, and Zuela, the adopted “daughter” of a Chinese shop owner used to play together as girls—and witnessed something terrible behind a hibiscus bush many years ago...Trust me, you will not want to stop reading.

Comment by Angela Patsy on April 9, 2008 at 11:49am

Beyond the Limbo Silence is a must read. A totally absorbing book, so put aside some time to read as you will not want to put it down.

Comment by Angela Patsy on March 21, 2008 at 4:44pm

Elizabeth Nunez's 'Beyond the Limbo Silence,' is the first book that is being read.
“A haunting story . . . Bears witness to the struggles of an African Caribbean woman as she seeks to find her place in America without selling her soul.”
When Sara Edgehill is given a scholarship to leave Trinidad and attend a college in Wisconsin, she is thrilled. America, the one she has seen in the movies, is a land of dreams, prosperity, and equality. Not like Trinidad, where her parents cast disappointed glances her way because she wasn’t born with lighter-colored skin. But when Sara leaves her island’s brilliant green fields and warm sparkling waters for the pale cornfields of the Midwest, the ties to her home and her past grip her as strongly as America’s cold, winter winds.

For as soon as Sara sets foot in her new home, she must make tough decisions. Wanting desperately to fit in, she begins to understand that in America, the color lines run deeper than they did even in Trinidad. And as Sara forms ties with two other West Indian students–the beguiling, haunted Courtney and the passionate, vivacious Sam–she is irrevocably pulled into the very center of America’s exploding civil rights movement.