What's the most creative book you've read this year?

#naniki is that book for me. Not just in terms of how Kempadoo utilizes prose and poetry, but also in the story she tells. So very Caribbean as a whole, yet with each island visited and experienced, we see the distinct characteristics of every one and eventual changes as we ride the tide of time.

Infused with the influences of all the people who have imhabited and impacted our beautiful region(Tainos, Kalinagos, Africans, Indians), Skelele and Amana are tasked with finding the knowledge of our past in hopes of saving our beleaguered future. Travelling through seas polluted with plastics and oil spills unto islands that have been modified to support lifeforms in a climate-ravaged world, they see the danger that is slowly creeping towards both their homes of sea and sky. 

I loved the imagery that was conjured and the very appropriate use of domed resorts, deforestation, and mining that was used to represent the adapting faces of our lands in an effort to survive the damage we've  caused; using our myths and other cultural aspects was an ingenius way of immersing the reader into this familiar and all to real representation that she has created.

This won't be for everyone, but as a reader with an intimate and forever connection to the Caribbean, these words resonated with me.