Books

Image: “Fishermen at Sea,” J. M. W. Turner (1796)

BEYOND THE BATHS OF STARS

Debut novel forthcoming from Amistad / HarperCollins

A retelling of the Odyssey about the son of Haitian immigrants who, after a chance encounter one night with a strange young woman who washes up on the beach, embarks with his friends on a joyride through Miami, all the while growing steadily more convinced of a plot to keep him trapped in his hometown hood — and fighting to do everything he can to escape it.

— Finalist for Texas Review Press’ The George Garrett Fiction Prize

— Twice-Finalist for the University of New Orleans Press’ Publishing Laboratory Contest

— Semi-Finalist for Black Lawrence Press’s The Big Moose Prize