Wayne Brown on Caribbean Writers
December 2010
General Issue
Patricia Powell, The Fullness of Everything (Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 2009), 240 pages, ISBN 10-1845231139 (paper).
Amanda Smyth, Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange (New York, Three Rivers Press, 2009) 273pp, ISBN-978-0-307-46064-6 (paperback)1
Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (New York: Riverhead Books, 2007), 335 pages, ISBN 978-1594483295 (paper).
These comments were given at the Bob Marley Symposium, during the launch of Review 81 – “Bob Marley and His Legacy” at the Americas Society in New York on 18 November 2010. Portions of this address also appear in the writer’s introduction to the academic section of the issue (permission credit below).