Dionne Brand

"A startlingly original work about the act of writing itself from Griffin Poetry Prize--winner Dionne Brand. An essential observer of our time and one of the most accomplished poets writing today, Dionne Brand returns with a work that engages intimately with the act and difficulty of writing, the relationship between the author and the world, and the relationship between the author and other artists. It is a work with many preoccupations (memory,...

A novel on Trinidad's diaspora. It follows the lives of the descendants of a witch who staged a mass suicide in 1824 to protest slavery. The descendants range from a gangster in the U.S. to a prostitute in Holland.