Pleasantview
Mohammed, Celeste2022
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Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these and other sunny images are all they know about life in the Caribbean. However, if you want to learn how the locals truly live and experience the dark and often harrowing truths that lurk behind the idyllic imagery of Caribbean culture, then come visit the town of Pleasantview. Come during election season, and see how one candidate sets out to slaughter endangered turtles - just for fun. Or come on the day the other candidate beats his 'outside-woman,' so badly she ends up losing their baby. Then come on the night of the political rally, where this grieving woman exacts a very public revenge. Stay a while, and see how this single event has a trajectory far beyond the lives of the immediate actors, with often tragic and heartbreaking consequences.
Main title:
Pleasantview / Celeste Mohammed.
Author:
Mohammed, Celeste, author
Imprint:
London : Jacaranda, 2022.
Collation:
xiii, 226 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.
Awards:
2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction
ISBN:
9781913090913 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
92112
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