#Curdella Forbes

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A Tall History of Sugar

By Curdella Forbes.

Design by Gill Heeley.

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how/where do you find the poetry/quotes/lyrics in your webweaving? any tips for expanding your reading horizons and finding more writing you may be interested in?

my biggest tip would be make use of your local library. pick up books with interesting covers/titles, pick up anything that catches your eye. i like walking around and choosing whatever is interesting. i also love bookstagram accounts and a big chunk of my tbr list is made up of books i found on there. i also follow a lot of accounts here on tumblr that post a lot of quotes which exposes me to a lot of different authors and genres <3 in 2022 i discovered african, eastern european and caribbean authors, i would recommend reading authors from other countries. one of my goals is to read a book set in every country of the world.

favourite bookstagram accs:

@\verynicebooks

@\versobooks

@\interestedinblackbooks

@\voidedlux

some books on my tbr:

stories from the tenants downstairs sidik fofana

agõtĩme: her legend judith i. gleason

african psycho alain mabanckou

the attic child lola jaye

in the eye of the sun ahdaf soueif

generation dread: finding purpose in an age of climate crisis britt wray

some of my favourite books i read in 2022:

a game of thrones george rr martin

severence ling ma

talking animals joni murphy

ghost forest pik-shuen fung

here again now okechukwu nzelu

a constant hum alice bishop

whereabouts jhumpa lahiri

dust yvonne adhiambo owuor

where you come from saša stanišić

catch the rabbit lana bastašić

girl at war sara

how the one-armed sister sweeps her house cherie jones (one of my absolute favourites)

a tall history of sugar curdella forbes

the bread the devil knead (loved this one too) lisa allen-agostini

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Books Read in 2022

January

The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit by Patricia Monaghan 

The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine 

February

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West by Catherine Fletcher

The Desolations of Devil’s Acre (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #6) by Ransom Riggs 

Eifelhelm by Michael Flynn 

The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer 

March

The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (reread)

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley

April

The Parted Earth by Anjani Enjeti 

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar 

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy 

The Last Blue by Isla Morley 

Lone Stars by Justin Deabler 

All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South by Ruth Coker Burns

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

May

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (reread)

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker 

LaRose by Louise Erdrich

A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York by Cindy Amrhein 

June

Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake and Deborah Herman

These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Dubois 

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 

A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske 

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

July

No Exit by Taylor Adams

The Wanderers by Meg Howrey 

A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes

Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu

Calypso by David Sedaris

My Antonia by Willa Cather 

The First English Actresses: Women and Drama 1660-1700 by Elizabeth Howe

English Animals by Laura Kaye

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

August

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang 

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman (reread)

The Latecomers by Helen Klein Ross 

Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

September

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Country Roots: The Origins of Country Music by Douglas B. Green

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream by Conor Dougherty

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (reread)

J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin

The Lost Ones by Anita Frank

October

A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates

The Reddening by Adam Nevill

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

November

It Happened in the Smokies... A Mountaineer’s Memories of Happenings in the Smoky Mountains in Pre-Park Days by Gladys Trentham Russell

Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks 

Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres 

I Was Told There’d be Cake: Essays by Sloane Crosley

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

December

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (reread)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (reread)

Mrs. Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

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A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes https://amzn.to/2Bq9TA7

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2021 in Books

Sayaka Murata - Die Ladenhüterin

Virginia Woolf - Orlando

Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Han Kang - Human Acts

Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun

Carlis Ruiz Zafón - La sombra del viento 

Thomas Chatwin - Mörder unbekannt verzogen

Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

Les Back - Adacemic Diary

Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club

Pasi Ilmanen Jääskeläinen - Lauras Verschwinden im Schnee

Yoko Ogawa - The Memory Police

Curdella Forbes - A Tall History of Sugar

Isabel Allende - A Long Petal of the Sea 

Sosuke Natsukawa - The Cat who Saved Books

Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affaire at Styles

                            Murder on the Links

                            Poirot investigates

                            The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

                            The Big Four 

Audio Books

Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson Reihe

                        Helden des Olymp Reihe 

                        Kane Chroniken 1, Die Rote Pyramide

Cornelia Funke - Tintenherz 

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5 Questions with Courttia Newland, Author of A River Called Time

Courttia Newland is the author of seven books including his much-lauded debut, The Scholar. His last novel, The Gospel According to Cane, was published by Akashic in 2013. In 2016 he was awarded the Roland Rees Bursary for playwriting. As a screenwriter, he has co-written two episodes of the Steve McQueen BBC series Small Axe. A River Called Time is his latest book.

Courttia Newland will be discussing his newest book with Naomi Jackson and Victor LaValle as part of our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on April 17th!

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Where are you writing to us from?

I’m writing from Forest Gate, East London in the borough of Newham, which is the birthplace of Grime and Jungle, home of the 2012 Olympics; and it has a pretty cool park near me too--West Ham Park. I’ve only lived here for eight years or so; before that I was in Brixton, and before that I was born and bred in west London: Wood Lane, Shepherd’s Bush, and Ladbroke Grove. There’s a rumor that Brixton and Ladbroke Grove are twinned, as far as the African-Caribbean populace are concerned. The only part of London I’ve never lived in is north. So far.

What’s kept you sane during the pandemic?

Being a writer I’m usually holed up in the house for the better part of a year anyway, and I was doing pretty good until January. Then I had enough. I’ve been working mostly, getting projects done, overdosing on music, watching as much film and TV as I can, reading on occasion. SAULT albums were a Godsend; I love prolific artists. The movies Rocks, His House, Time, and I’m No Longer Here were really inspiring. I binged on Watchmen, The Morning Show and Homecoming. I also don’t know what I’d have done without my family and kids being with me.

What are 3 books do you always recommend to people?

Only 3?! Percival Everett - Erasure, Curdella Forbes – A Tall History of Sugar, Colson Whitehead – The Intuitionist.

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

Well, Percival heavily influences me, so much so that my previous novel was homage to his work. As I love prolific artists, J Dilla is a major inspiration for his ability to find his own lane, and work without the need for outside accolades. Erykah Badu, Alice Coltrane, Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar, Kool G Rap. Steve McQueen without question. Dennis Brown, Peter Tosh, Dennis Bovell, Smiley Culture. Fela Kuti, James Brown. The Grime scene, Wiley, Dizzee, D Double E, Kano, the UK Hip-Hop scene (shout out to London Posse, and Demon Boyz)! The entire diaspora sound-system culture! Boards of Canada, Autechre. The Metu Neter. God. Everything really.

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

Shepherd’s Bush Green, it'd be called House of Culture and it would be fully interactive with a coffee shop/juice bar, theatre/cinema which could be turned into a space for book launches and parties. Perhaps a writing/internet space for people without access, kind of like an Internet bar or library. Strictly A to Z by author, no sections according to ethnicity. African Diaspora led, but completely inclusive. I’d never dictate the bestseller! It could be anything really but something smart and incisive about life, sex, spirituality and the capacity for human potential that could be anything: fiction, non-fiction, a play or poetry. Something mind-bending and true that exists without hype, just pure joy.

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#Repost @caribbeanautobiography (@get_repost) ・・・ Looking forward to reading this new book from @akashicbooks review from the NYT: The complex relationship of black people to their own skin — how it has affected freedom, rights, privilege, safety, opportunities and self-worth — has been central to our experience for generations. The first slave ships arrived in America in 1619, as the recent New York Times Magazine project so powerfully recounts. But the first slave ships arrived in Jamaica in 1517, 502 years ago. In her new novel, “A Tall History of Sugar,” the Jamaican writer Curdella Forbes uses skin as a prism to examine color, race, colonialism, heritage and — most important — love. #jamaicanwriter #caribbeanliterature #magic https://ift.tt/2sOPuUF Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd

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so i sing you a song of losing the the river

I’m a child of the moon

My life, love, face- phases

Lived in phases

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Curdella Forbes' A Tall History of Sugar

Curdella Forbes’ A Tall History of Sugar

Hardcover Publication Date: October 1, 2019 / Publisher: Akashic Books A Tall History of Sugar delivers a tall order of beautiful language, a giddy, glorious and, yes, intoxicating order.  Just as I wrote this, one tiny example came to mind, two words only: “ploughing darkness”.  Dark, but lovely, isn’t it?  How recognizable to any of us afflicted by the human condition.  Hard work, that…

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A Tall History of Sugar

By Curdella Forbes.

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A Tall History of Sugar

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A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes

Discovered amidst a tangle of sea grape trees by the childless Rachel Fisher, baby Moshe’s provenance is a thing of myth and mystery; his unusual appearance, with blueish, translucent skin and duo-toned hair, only serves to compound his mystique. Equally feared and ridiculed by peers as he grows up, he finds a surprising kindred soul in the striking and bold Arrienne Christie, but their complex relationship is fraught with obstacles that tear them apart as powerfully as they are drawn together. Beginning in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica’s independence from colonial rule, A Tall History of Sugar’s epic love story sweeps between a rural Jamaica, scarred by the legacies of colonialism, and an England increasingly riven by race riots and class division.

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Posted @withrepost • @thisbrownegirlreads Part 4 of 5 ~ Black Women’s Fiction Selections 2020! “No matter who you are or where you come from, the human spirit wants—no, needs—to be validated. While story means so much in every culture and ethnicity, I know that black folk, no matter how they got here, are planted in story and shared lived experience. It’s the way we witness. The late Virginia Hamilton, the author of The People Could Fly—a revered children’s book of African American storytelling—said that storytelling was the first opportunity for black folks to represent themselves as anything other than property. As Congressman John Lewis, a standard bearer of the civil rights movement and equity in this country, says, “The movement without storytelling, is like birds without wings.” Via Why Telling Our Own Story Is So Powerful for Black Americans. Andrea Collier. . 🖋. . This group was not intended to be a traditional Book Club, I actually refer to the group as a Reading Community, reflecting its diverse readers. When selecting books for our monthly discussions, having options are my thoughts. Enhancing participation in our conversations requires providing selections that will evoke interest. It is my hope to engage everyone in one or more of our monthly reading selection conversations by offering a variety instead of only one. Creating within the genre, varying monthly reading selections to satisfy your reading preferences. . 🖋. . January ~ Such A Fun Age. Kiley Reid. February ~ Hitting A Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick. Zora Neale Hurston. March ~ Black Sunday. Tola Rotimi Abraham. *March bonus ~ The Girl With The Louding Voice. Abi Dare. April ~ The City We Became. N.K. Jemissin. *April Bonus~ Conjure Women: A Nobel. Afia Atakora. May ~ Lakewood. Megan Giddings. June ~ The House of Deep Water. Jeni McFarland. July ~ The Vanishing Half. Brit Bennett. August ~ These Ghost Are Family. Maisy Card. *August Bonus ~ History of Sugar. Curdella Forbes. September ~ How Beautiful We Were. Imbolo Mbue. October ~ Transcedent Kingdom. Yaa Gyasi. November ~ The Death of Vivek Oji. Akwaeke Emezi. December ~ It’s Not All Downhill From Here. Terry McMillan. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7OVtRdAdgM/?igshid=1u547wi6c0237

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A Novel of Jamaica Brimming With Magic, Passion and History

By BY VERONICA CHAMBERS In “A Tall History of Sugar,” Curdella Forbes uses skin as a prism to examine color, race, colonialism, heritage and — most important — love. Published: October 17, 2019 at 04:46AM from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2OTyJAh via IFTTT

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Hello October 🍁🍃🍂⁣
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October is my favorite month for many reasons… it’s my birthday month, it’s #breastcancerawareness month & it’s also when I officially switch from Rosé to Cabernet Sauvignon. @caymuscab is one of my favorite wines to enjoy while reading & relaxing, especially when there’s a chill in the air. The books in this #diversespines stack release this month. Fingers crossed that I get though all of them. Many thanks to the tagged publishers for the gifted copies! Let the month long celebration begin 🥳💃🏽♎️⁣
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✦ 10/1 A TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR by Curdella Forbes (Happy #PubDay🎉)⁣
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✦ 10/8 WHERE TO BEGIN by Cleo Wade⁣
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✦ 10/8 GRAND UNION by Zadie Smith⁣
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✦ 10/29 ORDINARY GIRLS by Jaquira Díaz⁣
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#spinesvines #books #wine #libraseason #birthdaymonth (at National Harbor, Maryland)
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Department of Literatures to host <b>writing</b> workshop

The Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona, will host a creative writing workshop facilitated by writer-in-residence Dr Curdella Forbes. The four weekly sessions of workshop will run four consecutive Wednesdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., beginning Wednesday, April 18 ... https://ift.tt/2qdRVM2

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Book Review: A Tall History Of Sugar

Book Review: A Tall History Of Sugar

A Tall History Of Sugar:�� A Novel, by Curdella Forbes

This book was not what I wanted or expected–I was hoping for a book that would have some sort of explanation about the nature of sugar in the Jamaican economy and culture, perhaps fictionalized but at least a worthwhile historical novel.  Instead, this book is an award-bait kind of novel that was not very enjoyable to read although it is the…