Pleasantview

Trinidad and Tobago lawyer-turned-author Celeste Mohammed has had her work published in The New England Review, Litmag, Epiphany and The Rumpus, and other places. Her 2021 award-winning debut Pleasantview is a look at Caribbean life starting with the writer’s native Trinidad and Tobago, and going out to other parts of the American continent. Where the world has been fed a diet of life in the Caribbean as easy going and happy-go-lucky, this book shows its underbelly. Poverty and patriarchy savagely rule while, love and revenge often go hand in hand. This title won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, arguably the most important award for Caribbean writing.