Caribbean: A Novel / James A. Michener

RATINGS

Overall: 4 / 5 stars

Text Level: High

Entertainment: High

Self-Help: Low

Page Count: 896

Buy on: Amazon / Barnes & Noble

Everything you wanted to know about the Caribbean Islands. It will make you want to jump on a cruise ship tomorrow and visit a few of them.

James A. Michener received the presidential medal of freedom in 1977 from President Gerald Ford. He has written 40 books all with historical backgrounds. While Caribbean invokes fiction, it’s mixed with factual characters and places. Starting in 1310 and survives 600 years of Caribbean history focusing on roughly nine family lines during that time. IT is loaded with teh sugar cane industry, slavery, the exchange of islands with swashbuckling tales of mighty ships and its conquerers. It is divided into many chapter parts that meld together bringing you closer and closer to the characters. Some with happy endings, some with not so happy endings. It will educate you to the harsh realities of being black or even lighter black with its white inhabitants. You can’t put it down from page 1.