<div>&ldquo;Deftly explores family strife and immigrant identity . . . expressive prose and convincing characters that immediately hook the reader.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review Winner of the PEN Oakland Award for Literary Excellence Long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award When Anna takes a break from her successful publishing career in the US and visits the Caribbean island home of her birth, she is upset to discover that her mother, Beatrice, has breast cancer. The family is upper class, and treatment in America may offer her a chance of survival. But, believing that she would never receive quality care there as a black woman, she rejects all efforts to persuade her as the clock keeps ticking on her illness . . . From the American Book Award&ndash;winning author of Prospero&rsquo;s Daughter, this is a &ldquo;moving exploration of immigrant identity [with] a protagonist caught between race, class, and a mother&rsquo;s love&rdquo; (Ms. Magazine). &ldquo;A psychologically and emotionally astute family portrait, with dark themes like racism, cancer, and the bittersweet longing of the immigrant.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;Nunez has created a moving and insightful character study while delving into the complexities of identity politics. Highly recommended.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;An intimate portrait of the unknowable secrets and indelible ties that bind husbands and wives, mothers and daughters.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;Probing and lyrical . . . one of Nunez&rsquo;s best yet.&rdquo; &mdash;Edwidge Danticat</div>

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Anna In-Between

<div>A woman struggles with love, work, and identity in a novel by &ldquo;one of the finest and most necessary voices in contemporary American and Caribbean fiction&rdquo; (Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin). Anna, a Caribbean American immigrant, is eager to assimilate in her new country&mdash;but she is about to discover that a gap yawns between her and American-born citizens. The head of a specialized imprint at a major publishing house, Anna is soon challenged for her position by an ambitious upstart who accuses her of not really understanding American culture&mdash;particularly African American culture. Her job at stake, Anna turns for advice to her boyfriend, a fellow Caribbean American himself, but even here she finds conflict&mdash;in this riveting, thoughtful novel about immigration, family dynamics, race, and relationships, in which &ldquo;many moments of elegant, overarching insight bind the personal to the collective past&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;Spare and transcendent prose . . . a unique and riveting perspective on Caribbean life as well as immigrant life in general.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Amsterdam News &ldquo;If I wore a hat, I&rsquo;d tip it to novelist Elizabeth Nunez. [Boundaries] is timely and provocative&mdash;and it&rsquo;s written with such vivid prose that, despite the bittersweet ending, you&rsquo;ll step away from this refreshing take on contemporary publishing with a smile.&rdquo; &mdash;Essence &ldquo;In Nunez&rsquo;s latest, the author further explores immigrant life, a life where a hard-working woman can progress up the corporate ladder, buy an apartment in a soon-to-be trendy neighborhood, and still be plagued by outsider&rsquo;s angst. A thoughtful literary novel exploring the shadows of cultural identity and the mirage of assimilation.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;A quiet, sensitive portrait . . . This work covers a lot of ground, from mother-daughter and male-female relationships to the tensions between immigrants and the American born.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;Deftly dissects the immigrant experience in light of cultural traditions that impact family roles, professional obligations, and romantic opportunities.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

Boundaries

<div>&ldquo;A perceptive and moving tale of an African-American middle-class marriage struggling to right itself.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly Justin and Sally Peters are both passionate educators&mdash;Justin a hardened, Harvard-educated professor of literature at a small public college, and Sally a gentle elementary school teacher, teaching her students that happiness and joy require strength and perseverance. They&rsquo;ve had a calm and loving marriage, enlivened by their curious four-year-old daughter, Giselle. But suddenly Sally, whose past is full of loss, begins to pull away from the man in whom she once found comfort and safety. When Giselle starts asking him if Mommy is okay, Justin worries that Sally is on the verge of leaving him. Is she harboring feelings for a lost lover or, Justin wonders, was she ever really meant to be his wife? As Sally retreats deeper and deeper into herself, Justin wonders if her past has come to claim her once and for all. As deep snow falls in Brooklyn, Justin and Sally&rsquo;s relationship is put to the test. What once was a warm and cozy marriage bed becomes as cold as the encroaching winter frost, and the couple must decide if staying together is in everyone&rsquo;s best interest . . . &ldquo;Extremely deserving of its title, this gorgeous, meditative book is a graceful rendering of one couple&rsquo;s journeys and explorations toward and away from each other. A moving love story, it shows us how a deferred dream can erode a marriage and how grace can sometimes put us to the test, even as it redeems.&rdquo; &mdash;Edwidge Danticat, author of Claire of the Sea Light &ldquo;One gets a good sense of how difficult it is for wounded people to trust and love each other fully . . . a deeply felt and compassionate novel.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal</div>

Grace

<div>The author explores her mother&rsquo;s marriage&mdash;and fourteen pregnancies&mdash;in this &ldquo;powerful memoir&rdquo; (Ebony). One of Oprah.com&rsquo;s Best Memoirs of the Year Winner of the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction Tracing the four days between the moment she gets the dreaded call and the burial of her mother, Elizabeth Nunez tells of her lifelong struggle to cope with her parents&rsquo; ambitions for their children&mdash;and her mother&rsquo;s seemingly unbreakable conviction that displays of affection are not for everyday use. Yet Nunez sympathizes with her parents, whose happiness is constrained by the oppressive strictures of colonialism; by the Catholic Church&rsquo;s prohibition of artificial birth control which her mother obeys, terrified by the threat of eternal damnation (her mother gets pregnant fourteen times: nine live births and five miscarriages which almost kill her); and by the complexities of skin color in Caribbean society. Through it all, a fierce love holds this family together, and helps carry Nunez through her grief, in this &ldquo;intriguing [and] courageous memoir&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). &ldquo;Nunez ponders the cultural, racial, familial, social, and personal experiences that led to what she ultimately understands was a deeply loving union between her parents. A beautifully written exploration of the complexities of marriage and family life.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

Not for Everyday Use

<div>A novel of family, privilege, and poverty, described as &ldquo;King Lear in the Caribbean&rdquo; (O, The Oprah Magazine). A New York Post Must-Read Book Peter Ducksworth, a Trinidadian widower of English ancestry, retires to Barbados, believing he will find an earthly paradise there. He decides to divide his land among his three daughters while he is alive, his intention not unlike that of King Lear, who hoped &ldquo;That future strife/May be prevented now.&rdquo; But Lear made the fatal mistake of confusing flattery with love, and so does Ducksworth. Feeling snubbed by his youngest daughter, Ducksworth decides that only after he dies will she receive her portion of the land. In the meantime, he gives his two older daughters their portions, ironically setting in motion the very strife he hoped to prevent. &ldquo;An epic tale of family betrayal and manipulation couched in superbly engaging prose and peopled with deftly drawn characters. In a story structure as rhythmic as the ebb and flow of the water surrounding Trinidad and Barbados, this revisiting of the classic story of King Lear becomes a subtle, organic exploration of politics, class, race, and privilege. A dazzling, epic triumph.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews, starred review &ldquo;Nunez&rsquo;s textured and engaging novel explores familial discord, along with questions of kinship and self-identity. . . . Nunez crafts an introspective tale as her vividly drawn characters navigate complications of heritage, race, and loyalty.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;A Caribbean reimagining of King Lear that adds colonialism and racism to the story of three sisters, the men they love and their battle over the deed to their father&rsquo;s beloved property.&rdquo; &mdash;Ms. Magazine &ldquo;Even if you&rsquo;re not familiar with King Lear, William Shakespeare&rsquo;s great tragedy, you will still enjoy Even in Paradise.&rdquo; &mdash;Essence</div>

Even in Paradise

<div>&ldquo;A captivating tale of Oufoula Sindede, an African diplomat in a passionless marriage who falls madly in love with Marguerite, a New York City artist.&rdquo; &mdash;Essence Dutifully married to lovely Nerida, Oufoula goes through the motions, formally keeping his distance from the woman with whom he shares his bed. And yet there is a deeper, buried passion within him that will lead him to question which values he holds sacred and which can be sacrificed. Despite his quiet marriage, the memory of a fiery love affair triggers Oufoula to entangle himself in the life of another woman, a Jamaican-born painter named Marguerite. Soon he discovers that Marguerite is nothing like his quick old flames or his gentle wife, Nerida&mdash;Marguerite is much more. And so begins a whirlwind affair, spanning over twenty years, between a young woman who wants order and love and a man who is torn between the honors of his profession and his dishonorable love life; the old African customs of polygamy and the American dream; the passion for a mistress and the duty to a wife. &ldquo;A provocative new love story.&rdquo; &mdash;The Seattle Times &ldquo;Refreshingly ambitious in its intellectual scope.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;Right from the start of this haunting novel, Nunez adopts the mesmerizing myth-spinning voice of an oral storyteller . . . Nunez explores self-deception, envy, Christian monogamy vs. African polygamy, and the very real dilemma of loving two people at once.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A complex portrait of a love triangle by a gifted writer.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist A main selection of the Black Expressions Book Club</div>

Discretion

<div>Eighteen authors share dark mysteries set on the sunny Caribbean island in this anthology. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. As reflected herein, the Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of noir fiction. Features brand-new stories by Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Lawrence Scott, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, Vahni Capildeo, Willi Chen, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Keith Jardim, Reena Andrea Manickchand, Tiphanie Yanique, and more. Praise for Trinidad Noir “The volumes in Akashic’s locale-based noir anthology series set outside North America (Dublin Noir, etc.) offer more variety than those set in different major U.S. cities, and this one is no exception. The editors’ brief but insightful introduction makes clear that the sun and sea tourist image of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is at odds with the country’s political climate of excess and corruption and an element of society afloat in drugs and guns . . . . The two standouts are Keith Jardim’s mystical “The Jaguar” and Lawrence Scott’s “Prophet,” in which a series of child disappearances in a small but corrupt community builds to an appropriately bleak ending.” —Publishers Weekly</div>

Trinidad Noir

<div>Set on a Caribbean island in the grip of colonialism, this novel is “masterful . . . simply wonderful . . . [an] exquisite retelling of The Tempest” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When Peter Gardner’s ruthless medical genius leads him to experiment on his unwitting patients—often at the expense of their lives—he flees England, seeking an environ where his experiments might continue without scrutiny. He arrives with his three-year-old-daughter, Virginia, in Chacachacare, an isolated island off the coast of Trinidad, in the early 1960s. Gardner considers the locals to be nothing more than savages. He assumes ownership of the home of a servant boy named Carlos, seeing in him a suitable subject for his amoral medical work. Nonetheless, he educates the boy alongside Virginia. As Virginia and Carlos come of age together, they form a covert relationship that violates the outdated mores of colonial rule. When Gardner unveils the pair’s relationship and accuses Carlos of a monstrous act, the investigation into the truth is left up to a curt, stonehearted British inspector, whose inquiries bring to light a horrendous secret. At turns epic and intimate, Prospero's Daughter, from American Book Award winner Elizabeth Nunez, uses Shakespeare’s play as a template to address questions of race, class, and power, in the story of an unlikely bond between a boy and a girl of disparate backgrounds on a verdant Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. “Gripping and richly imagined . . . a master at pacing and plotting . . . an entirely new story that is inspired by Shakespeare, but not beholden to him.” —The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing . . . [Nunez] writes novels that resound with thunder and fury.” —Essence “A story about the transformative power of love . . . Readers are sure to enjoy the journey.” —Black Issues Book Review (Novel of the Year)</div>

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Books By Elizabeth Nunez (7 Books)

Anna In-Between

Boundaries

Grace

Not for Everyday Use

Even in Paradise

Discretion

Prospero's Daughter

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Even in Paradise

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