Elizabeth Nunez
Justin and Sally Peters are both passionate educators—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’ve...
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...
There is nothing like racial injustice in America to teach an outsider the differences between perception and reality.
"Powerful in message . . . An engaging, warm-hearted, page-turner of a novel." —New West Indian Guide
For Lila Bonnard, the opportunity to take a position as a visiting professor in the US has come at precisely the right time. Still nursing the wounds of one failed relationship
...5) Discretion
Descended from warriors and raised by missionaries, Oufoula is a diplomat whose wealth and charm make him both publicly admired and envied. From a tragic childhood he emerged a man who leads a disciplined life of respect,...
A spellbinding new novel from acclaimed author Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero's Daughter is a brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest set on a lush Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. Addressing questions of race, class, and power, it is first and foremost the story of a boy and a girl who come of age and violate the ultimate taboo.
Cut off from the main island