Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean, (Paperback)

from A_musing

Any collection of stories from the myriad of cultures that make up the Caribbean is bound to be uneven, and uneven these are; yet, there is in them a life and a warmth that makes them an unusually pleasing collection (perhaps more pleasing, for example, than the annual collection of American stor...

from mtbearded1

Rich in violence, poverty, and sex, Pepperpot's thirteen stories reflect the culture of the English speaking Caribbean, from Belize to Antigua and Barbuda. These are not stories designed to please the tourist bureaus in the various nations represented, nor do they reflect the world seen from the ...

from SigmundFraud

Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean is a collection of stories set in the Caribbean as is apparent from the title. If you like time, place and setting you will love this book. I particularly like the feel of a place exotic to me and this book offered that in spades. Most of the stories...

from michaelg16

Like the marvelously spicy stew it is named for, these lovely warm stories emanating from Caribbean authors are various and unique but come together as a delicious treat. Having spent a good deal of time working in Jamaica, I immediately felt the familiar language of these tales seeping in to my ...

from jasonpettus

[Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (cclapcenter.com). I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.] I have to confess, I would've never thought of picking up anthology of contemporary Caribbean writing o...