A corner of the world

In contemporary Havana, "Do I stay or do I go?" is always the question, and love doesn't necessarily conquer all

An untamed state

A Haitian American woman survives a brutal kidnapping in this "commanding debut novel" from the New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist (The New Yorker).Author and essayist Roxane Gay is celebrated for her incisive commentary on identity and culture, as well as for her bestselling nonfi...

Elektrik

In Elektrik, eight women writers from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe come together to explore, in poetry and prose, the complex nature of Caribbean existence. A single mother has an intimate encounter with a migrant worker; a teenager discovers her sexuality in the shadow of her twin sister; a...

Frigid tales

Emotionally charged stories of life lived on erotic impluse.

In the cold of the malecón

In these renegade stories, set in Cuba during the hard times following the collapse of the Soviet Union, people go to work only to find that their jobs no longer exist. They joke and tell stories from the past, live aimlessly, uncertain about what the future holds. While living in this state of s...

Mr. loverman

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, which has sold over 250,000 copies in Grove’s editions, a groundbreaking, hilarious novel set in London following two older gay Caribbean men reckoning with being closeted in a rapidly changing world“Bernardine Evaristo can take any stor...

Music for bamboo strings

A new Collection of haunting prose and poetry from Carlos Pintado.

Suite as sugar

From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, in settings where the veil between the living and the dead is obscured.

The book of conjurations

Irizelma Robles’s fourth poetry collection, transforms poet, reader and language through its conjurations.

The delicate beast

A novel of a life built on the ashes of childhoodIn the 1950s Tropical Republic, a boy lives amid opulence and privilege, spending days at the beach or in the cool hills above the sweltering capital, enjoying leisurely Sunday lunches around the family compound’s swimming pool. That is, until the ...

The distant marvels

Woman in battle dress

An epic, historical novel about a bold, transgressive woman whose life became the subject of Cuba's most sensational legal trial.