MARCH IS FOR MAWENZI. OUR MONTH OF READING TITLES FROM OUR BELOVED SMALL PUBLISHING HOUSE.
Mawenzi House is a small indie publisher in Toronto, dedicated to bringing diverse and marginalized voices in literature to the world. We...
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The Skin We're In by Desmond Cole. A Critical look at the Polite, Nice country of North America.
Every word, sentence and paragraph resonated with me as I read this book. I may not have, as of yet, experienced overt racism in Canada....
#BLACKATHON2020: THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM. LAVALLE TAKES ON LOVECRAFT.
LaValle gives us rich storytelling, intrigue, shady characters, and an engrossing mystery simmering with racial tension and undertones,...
Not So Pure and Simple. In More Ways than One.
In this young adult contemporary, Giles tackles societal standards and toxic masculinity. He does this in a fun, accessible yet...
Simi Visits Grandma: Tales From Jalingo; Cue the Nostalgia.
Going into Simi Visits Grandma, we were not sure what to expect. Being Jamaicans, we are from a culture that still retained stories...
FAVOURITE READS OF 2019
Happy New Year! 2019 just flew by, and it was a year of new and exciting experiences for us, one being starting this blog to share our...
Indigenous Lit. A New Debut That Solidifies Why Own Voices Is So Important.
Crow Winter by Karen McBride is a great read. And the fidelity that flows from page to page re indigenous life and practices, is exactly...
How Grief Transmutes Through Colours-The Astonishing Color of After.
When I started reading Emily X. R. Pan's 'The Astonishing Color of After', immediately I knew that I would love it. It was the way in...
#BookerPrizeWinner2019
Winner of the Booker prize for 2019, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo is told from the perspective of several women and a...
A TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR(JAMAICA).
'No, but not everybody is mixed up in such a way that the pieces don't come together in any way that makes sense or form'-Moshe. A Tall...
War Girls: A Story of More than Just War.
This story carries a personal touch from Tochi Onyebuchi, whose mother experienced the Biafran War. A war that pitted the people of...
No Angels Here. Short Review on Carlos Ruiz Zafon's 'The Angel's Game'.
Ruiz Zafon is a true story weaver, the pages his loom of craft. In The Angel's Game, we meet David Martin, a struggling novelist-to-be,...
My Totem Came Calling: A Search for Meaning.
A coming of age tale that incorporates a search for meaning, one's heritage, friendship and family. Chanda is a privileged teen living in...
Six Goodbyes We Never Said
This is a story of grief, mental health struggles and being different in a world that sometimes constantly reminds us that those...
The Stars & the Blackness Between Them
This story brims with black girl magic. Junauda Petrus takes us on a journey from Trinidad to Minneapolis, charting a tale that mixes...
The Shadow of the Wind: Intelligent, Romantic & Witty, With Just The Right Amount of Menace.
In Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind, he takes his readers on a labyrinthine adventure, one that starts with the find of a mysterious novel...
A Jamaican Icon - Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou)
Louise Bennett-Coverley, who was born on September 7, 1919 and died on July 26, 2007, was affectionately called Miss Lou. She was a poet,...
A Look at the Beginning of AIDS in the Caribbean
A Small Gathering of Bones by Patricia Powell, centres around a small group of gay men living in Kingston, Jamaica in the late 1970s. The...
A Dystopian Toronto with Caribbean Flavour
Brown Girl in the Ring is Nalo Hopkinson's debut novel and introduces her imagination for the fantastical; blending seamlessly, African...
The Duppy-What A Way Heaven Sweet.
"One Saturday morning, not very long ago, I dropped dead and turned into a duppy". In The Duppy, Anthony C. Winkler gives us an...