NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #90 (!) of #GMGReads. Every night through this (increasingly) weird (and sad) time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
Tonight I wanted to feature some favorites about the Caribbean, both fiction and nonfiction, all available at @magersandquinn in Minneapolis:
1) Jonathan Katz's (@katzonearth) deeply-reported and first-person experience in THAT BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY chronicles the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the flood of foreign intervention that didn't do a lot of good: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
2) Speaking of Haiti, Tracy Kidder's MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS, is a wonderful and emotional book about Dr. Paul Farmer and his quest to combat tuberculosis in that country over many years: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
3) THE BLACK JACOBINS, by C.L.R. James, retells the story of the Toussaint L'Ouverture, the brutality of slavery on the islands, and the San Domingo Revolution and opened a whole new study of the Caribbean in history: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
4) Brooke Newman's DARK INHERITANCE, about the British and slavery in Jamaica: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
5) Jamaica Kincaid is just an incredible writer, and she's written two powerful books on Antigua, ANNIE JOHN magersandquinn.com/product_info?p… and A SMALL PLACE: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
PS: I'd be remiss if I didn't mention a couple of other Caribbean-themed novels, including two of Graham Greene's classics, the uproarious OUR MAN IN HAVANA magersandquinn.com/product_info?p… and the dark THE COMEDIANS, magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
I've not read Tiphanie Yanique's novel LAND OF LOVE AND DROWNING, a family memoir of multiple generations in the Virgin Islands, but it's supposed to be good: magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
and lastly Marlon James' (@marlonjames5) THE BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN, a novel about Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation. magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. Do you have any favorites about the Caribbean or Latin America? What are you reading this weekend? Share! #avidreadersunite
