The Islands by Dionne Irving [in Shelf Awareness]
13 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Black/African American, British, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories
Nine of the 10 stories in The Islands, the deeply satisfying first collection of short fiction from University of Notre Dame professor Dionne Irving (Quint), center women who share a Jamaican background. The plurality inherent in the title cleverly points to Jamaica but also England...