Celeste Mohammed recommends
The House of Plain Truth (2024)
Donna Hemans
"In this book, set primarily in her native Jamaica, Donna Hemans reminds us what a debt the world owes Caribbean people-those who migrate, as well as those who remain to buttress the families left behind. Ours is a story of faith, risk, estrangement, and ultimately, longing, which Hemans evokes through characters who are unforgettable precisely because we seem to be remembering them. Hemans' great triumph is how her prose witnesses history with dignified tenderness and with a clarity which never gets in the reader's way or prescribes what we should feel about the plain truth."
