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Patsy, a young woman in Kingston, leaves her five-year-old daughter, Tru, with the girl's father and goes to New York on a tourist visa, hoping to find Cicely, the friend she has loved since childhood.
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Lucy
Lucy, nineteen, leaves Antigua to work as an au pair for a wealthy white family in New York, and is in no mood to be grateful.
Here Comes the Sun
Margot works at a resort hotel in Montego Bay and sells herself to tourists to keep her younger sister Thandi in school, while developers plan to build over their village.
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Four sisters from a well-off Dominican family, forced to flee to New York in 1960, grow up American, told backwards from adulthood to their island childhood.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Sophie Caco, raised by her aunt in a Haitian village, is sent at twelve to join the mother she barely knows in New York.
The Last Story of Mina Lee
When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.
Black Cake
Byron and Benny Bennett, estranged siblings, come home to California after their mother's death to find she has left them a long voice recording, the story of her life in the Caribbean, and a black cake in the freezer.
Of Women and Salt
In Miami in 2018 Jeanette, newly sober, goes to Cuba to learn about her family from her grandmother, and the story reaches back to her great-great-grandmother in a Camagüey cigar factory in 1866.
Dreaming in Cuban
Three generations of women of the del Pino family, a grandmother loyal to Castro in Cuba and her daughters and granddaughter in Brooklyn and Havana, are divided by politics and the sea.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
A Vietnamese-American man writes a letter to his illiterate mother, telling her everything: war, displacement, queerness, and the beauty he found despite it all.
Everything Inside
Eight stories of Haitians in Miami, in Port-au-Prince and on an unnamed island, among them a woman visiting a dying friend, a man on the edge of a roof and a love triangle that reaches across the sea.
The Dragon Can't Dance
In Calvary Hill, a hillside slum in Port of Spain, Aldrick Prospect spends all year making his dragon costume for Carnival, while his neighbours look for their own ways to matter.
Clap When You Land
When their father dies in a plane crash on his way to the Dominican Republic, Camino Rios in Santo Domingo and Yahaira Rios in New York, half-sisters who never knew the other existed, each learn the secret he kept.