Goodbye Bay is simply one of the very best Caribbean novels to have been written, and not just in recent years. The perfect summer read, its seamless mix of sharply observed realism, poetic intensity and warm humour tells a gripping story with room for surprise, humour, tragedy and redemption.
Jennifer Rahim explores the power of the imagination to confront the restrictions of the year of the pandemic through reflections on history and the capacity of language to give immediacy and presence to absent place. Rahim is a former winner of the Casa de las Américas Prize, and the OCM Prize for Caribbean Literature.