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TRINIDAD NOIR

edited by Lisa Allen-Agostini & Jeanne Mason

340 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

Brand-new stories by:
Elizabeth Nunez, Robert Antoni, Lawrence Scott, Oonya Kempadoo, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, elisha efua bartels, Tiphanie Yanique, and others.

“For sheer volume, few—anywhere—can beat [V.S.] Naipaul’s prodigious output. But on style, the writers in the Trinidadian canon can meet him eye to eye … Trinidad is no one-trick pony, literarily speaking.”

—Coeditor Lisa Allen-Agostini in the
New York Times

IRON BALLOONS:
HIT FICTION FROM
JAMAICA’S CALABASH WRITER’S WORKSHOP

edited by Colin Channer

250 pages, trade paperback original, $14.95

Brand-new stories by:
Elizabeth Nunez, Marlon James, Colin Channer, Kwame Dawes, Kaylie Jones, Alwin Bully, Sharon Leach, and others.

“The ability to eloquently delineate a particular experience— Caribbean life—accounts in large part for the significance and success of
Iron Balloons
… The anthology offers some of today’s most prominent Caribbean writers, including Kwame Dawes, Elizabeth Nunez, and Channer himself, as well as such newcomers as Marlon James and Sharon Leach.”

—Toronto Star
(Canada)

RUINS

a novel by Achy Obejas

300 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

“Compassionate and intriguing … Obejas plays out [the book’s] conflicts in measured, simple prose … to illuminate a setting filled with heartbreak, confusion, and decay.” with heartbreak, confusion,

—Los Angeles Times

“Ruins
is a beautifully written novel, a moving testament to the human spirit of an unlikely hero who remains unbroken even as the world collapses around him … A fine literary achievement, it’s Achy Obejas at her best.”

—El Paso Times

THE DUPPY

a novel by Anthony C. Winkler

176 pages, trade paperback, $13.95

“Winkler has a fine ear for patois and dialogue, and a love of language that makes bawdy jokes crackle.”
—New Yorker

“Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit, heart-stopping compassion, and jaw-dropping humor all at once.”

—Marlon James, author of
John Crow’s Devil

THE AGE OF DREAMING

a novel by Nina Revoyr 320 pages, trade paperback original, $15.95

*Selected by the
Advocate
as one of the Best Books of 2008; finalist for the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize

“The Age of Dreaming
elegantly entwines an ersatz version of film star Sessue Hayakawa’s life with the unsolved murder of 1920s film director William Desmond Taylor. The result hums with the excitement of Hollywood’s pioneer era … Reminiscent of Paul Auster’s
The Book
of Illusions
… [with] a surprising, genuinely moving conclusion.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

SONG FOR NIGHT

a novella by Chris Abani 170 pages, trade paperback original, $12.95

*Winner of a PEN/Beyond Margins Award and a
New York Times
Editors’ Choice

“A devastating portrait of a boy holding onto the shreds of his innocence during a war that deliberately, remorselessly works to yank it away …
Song for Night
has the feel of a prose poem, with its primary focus on imagery and its spare, musical language. Th e lyrical intensity of the writing perfectly suits the material.”

—Los Angeles Times