OurShelves: Caribbean voices with Sharma Taylor
Aug 19, 2022•38 min•Season 5Ep. 11
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Episode description
In this special bonus summer episode Sharma Taylor, author of What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You, takes us to the heated demi-monde of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1980s, a turbulent time in politics and gangland crime. She tells Lucy Scholes about writing in patois; the Caribbean authors right now who are representing the strength of women in society; and what her mother sacrificed to buy her books as a child.
On the nightstand: The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
On my mind: The podcasts Unstoppable Yes You and Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Cocoa Pod
On the shelf: This One Sky Day by Leone Ross
On the pedestal: My mother.
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