A book club series celebrating Caribbean identity. We interview the authors and find purpose in poetry and prose. We read to reflect and renew.
#001 - Follow the Call - Veronika Danzer - La Fortune
Veronika Danzer La - Fortune created an equine therapy program for disabled kids at @healingwithhorsestobago @beingwithhorsestobago
Together with her partner they offer a unique healing experience to local frontline workers, locals and tourists alike.
How did Veronika get here, not just to Tobago but to this pivotal point in her life?
Do you ever feel that constant pull and tug to do something more ?
What about that aching nag that calls you to serve your purpose?
Nothing worth fighting for is ever as easy as it sounds.
Follow the Call written by Veronika Danzer - La Fortune and translated by Christin Ullmann @artbooksgarden is a great read for anyone looking for inspiration to join social entrepreneurship.
It's also an even better read for those of us struggling with standing in our power, purpose and passion.
It's the best read yet for many of us who just want to confide in and relate to someone by stepping in their shoes and walk their walk through their writing.
Here is a link - The Prologue!
#002 - An Unending Search by Ryan Bachoo
Award winning journalist, Ryan Bachoo confronts "An Unending Search, a book set in the "longtime" Trinidad that we all know and love.
Bringing you nostalgia with a story that Caribbean people have either lived or lived to hear about.
There is hope for the future.
Resurrecting your faith in fighting for yourself amidst the drowning noise of the world and the weight of life's daily battles and burdens.
Ryan Bachoo's novel talks about a main character, Tar and his unending search navigating life changes, relationships, career changes, masculinity, the role of a boy child in the 1970's in a rural community.
This is something we can all relate to but should the unending search be normalized?
We beat ourselves up so much about finding the right direction or the right timeline and even the right location.
Do we ever stop to consider the value of the process or the journey than the end result or end destination?
Listen to a snippet of the interview here - The Reading
#003 - Love the Dark Days by Ira Mathur
Ira Mathur is an award-winning India-born Trinidadian multimedia journalist.
Her memoir, Love the Dark Days (Peepal Tree Press, 2022), won the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the overall prize.
It was also named among the best biographies of 2022 by the UK Guardian.
In 2021, Mathur was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award for a draft novel on Nina Simone. She is Guardian Media’s longest-running columnist and journalist and has freelanced for the UK Guardian and the BBC.
She holds degrees in literature (Trent University, Canada) and law (University of London), a master’s in international journalism (City University, London) and a diploma in creative writing from the University of East Anglia, UK Guardian.
Her body of journalism is available on www.irasroom.org
Love the Dark Days is a book that helps us deal with the many things that still haunt us all as Caribbean people. This book helps us to understand that we are not our ancestors and that we had to create from fragmentation; our own culture and identity unique to Trinidad and Tobago.
Listen to the full interview here - The Purpose Party