Like A Real Book Club

One thing about us, we’re gonna intend to talk about one thing and end up talking about 27. It’s been such a long time since we’ve done an episode that everything came pouring out of us. But that’s the beauty of a book club (and the podcasts that are like them) - you get to gush about your favourite things, the things you hate and everything in between with amazing people.

In this episode of the podcast, Ashley, Jherane and Kristina catch each other up on what they’ve been reading; all the reasons Goodreads sucks (and why we’re switching to Storygraph); our vendetta against Alfredo pasta and, perhaps more importantly, why we think Spice and Shenseea would be big fans of Talia Hibbert.

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We’re deep into 2020 now, and both the days and the years to come, look darker than they have in a very long time. No, we’re not just talking about COVID-19. So why not curl up with an appropriate book? Join our verandah chat with Diana McCaulay, author of Daylight Come, a tense futuristic sci-fi story about climate change in the Caribbean. 

What makes McCaulay's latest book so remarkable is how terrifyingly realistic she makes the details of the world she builds for her characters, and her readers, to inhabit. In this podcast, we talk about Daylight Come, how she prophecies through fiction writing, her craft, inspiration and the book that made her cry & become a writer.

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Have you ever met an author that was truly and genuinely as smart and brilliant as their work? Fortunately for us (because our book choices are goddess-tier), the writers that we’ve gotten to know since the start of 2020 have inspired us and left us gagging at how intimately their intellectual pursuits and their creative work connect. Our April book’s writer, Curdella Forbes, is no exception to this rule. 

For this episode of Like A Real Book Club, we sat down with Curdella on her verandah with three cups of tea, beautiful rolling hills before us and some nice, cool breeze washing over us. At least that’s the imagery we had in our heads while we sat in our respective homes. As an academic, it came as no surprise that Curdella’s understanding of the colonial project in the Caribbean is multilayered and complex. In our conversation about this deeply intricate novel, she talks to us about why she chose to use a man with “no skin” as a point of contention for both white people and black people, who were subjects of empire, to confront their ideas of race, worth and success. Throughout this interview, you’ll hear Curdella talk about the importance of writing in Jamaican, the seamless melding of the naturalist and spiritual world in the Jamaican psyche, writing the varied realities of Jamaican women and “our responsibility in the face of human vulnerability”. AND JUST SO MUCH MORE. 

Get a cup of your favourite tea, cock yuh ten and enjoy our interview with the very masterful, Curdella Forbes. 

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A spoiler-free review of A Tall History of Sugar by Jamaican novelist Curdella Forbes. In this episode, we talk about the Caribbean's legacy of sugar in the form of our education and careers, economic and political life, and even our diets... and of course the book. 

Special shout out to Professor Verene Shepherd and Professor Hilary Beckles. 

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