A politically astute coming-of-age novel set in Guyana in the turbulent late 1970s, where Kipling Plass and his teenage friends struggle for physical and emotional survival as they contend with the colonial past, racial animosity and Guyana's economic hardships. Heartbreaking, shocking, and lyrical.

Heartbreaking, shocking, and lyrical, "Kipling Plass" introduces us to a teenager abandoned by his mother after her mental breakdown. Set in a multiracial Guyanese village during the 1980s economic collapse, the novel grapples with the tensions between social solidarity and dog-eat-dog individualistic ruthlessness. Amidst crumbling social structures, Kipling Plass and his teenage friends navigate physical and emotional survival, all while wrestling with their own confusions of sexual and social identity. This compelling literary fiction debut promises to be among the very best novels you've encountered.