Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2064)
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The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste EN
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest, and shining yellow eyes follow her to the edge of the trees. They couldn’t belong to a jumbie. Or could they? When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next day, she knows something extraordinary is about to happen. When this same beauty, called Severine, turns up at Corinne’s house, danger is in the air. ... continue
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The Beast of Kukuyo by Kevin Jared Hosein EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
"The Beast of Kukuyo is a gripping mystery told through the eyes of 15-year-old Rune Mathura and set in the 1990s. The gritty tale begins with the disappearance of Dumplin Heera, a fifteen year-old East Indian girl in the quiet rural village of Kukuyo. The murder happens while the town is plunged in darkness and the story unveils a deeper moral darkness festering beneath the surface. In part driven by her keen interest in crime fiction, particularly Murder She Wrote, Rune decides that she has seen too much tragedy without redress. Having lost her mother in a senseless act of violence, Rune is ... continue
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Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
A queer Caribbean anti-colonial Count of Monte Cristo set in space in which a betrayed captain seeks revenge on the interplanetary empire that subjugated her people for generations Virika Sameroo lives in colonized space under the Æerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British West Indies. After years of working hard to rise through the ranks of the empire’s merchant marine, she’s finally become first lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel. When her captain dies under suspicious circumstances, Virika is arrested for murder and charged with treason despite her lifelong loy... continue
825.
Among the Believers : An Islamic Journey by V. S. Naipaul EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
"Among the Believers "is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam, and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism. 'The edgy exactitude of Naipaul's writing is both effortlessly classical and yet at the same time brilliantly contemporary, as sharp and lucid as a spear of glass . . . He is inimitab... continue
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In Praise of Island Women & Other Crimes : Short Fiction by Brenda Flanagan EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Above all, Brenda Flanagan penetrates to the heart of Trinidad's satirical culture of picong, and the way that playing with the word sustains a sense of self and community. --
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You Alone are Dancing by Brenda Flanagan EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Brenda Flanagan's award-winning novel You Alone Are Dancing, set on the fictitious Caribbean island of Santabella, depicts the challenges that beset a young couple and their neighbors. (An) elegantly defiant account of the ravages wrought by corporate imperialism on what might be any disenfranchised island people.... Flanagan's prose never abandons the languorous rhythms of island life. One of the greatest pleasures in this novel is its wonderful dialogue, which creates a constant thrumming music beneath the political events that provide its surface tensions.
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Is Just a Movie by Earl Lovelace EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
In the town of Cascadu, Trinidad, the 1970 Black Power rebellion has failed. Sonnyboy, hapless and luckless, is desperate to be recognised as part of the rebellion and forces the uninterested police to arrest him. KingKala, a singer, returns from detention and is sidelined in the calypso tent, his music dated and unfashionable.
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The Mimic Men by V. S. Naipaul EN
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Ralph Singh is writing his memoirs in an attempt to impose order on a chaotic existence in this novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. V.S. Naipaul is the author of 13 works of fiction and ten of non-fiction and won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature.
830.
Country: North America / Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
A heart-stirring novel about a mother’s love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption, from the prize-winning author of Golden Child “A beautiful story full of vibrance and heart . . . explores what it means to be a woman and what it means to love.”—Amanda Peters, author of The Berry Pickers “Reads like a Claire Keegan story expanded by Elizabeth Strout.”—The Times, “Best Books to Take on Holiday This Summer” For much of her life, Dawn has felt as if something is missing. Now, at the age of fifty-eight, with a divorce behind her and her two grown-up sons... continue