Why everyone should read the work of Elizabeth Nunez:

Prospero?s Daughter was a March 2006 Editor?s Choice in the New York Times. The Times calls Elizabeth Nunez ?a master of pacing and plotting,? and says that Prospero?s Daughter is ?gripping and richly imagined.? Prospero?s Daughter was named 2006 Best Novel of the Year by Black Issues Book Review and was the 2006 One Book, One Community selection for the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, celebrated at the 2006 Miami International Literary Festival.

Nunez is the award-winning author of six novels in all. Besides Prospero’s Daughter, she has written the novels Grace; Discretion; Bruised Hibiscus; Beyond the Limbo Silence; and When Rocks Dance. Bruised Hibiscus won a 2001 American Book Award, Discretion was short-listed for the 2003 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Beyond the Limbo Silence won the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award in the multicultural category. In its review of Nunez?s novel Grace, Publisher?s Weekly says that the prose is ?exquisitely tuned? and that the narrative unfolds with ?understated elegance.? The Seattle Times comments that ?Discretion delivers two memorable characters whose personal culture clashes, both shared and internalized, are as telling as those of the world they inhabit.? Black Issues Book Review describes Bruised Hibiscus as ?moving, powerful and haunting? and Booklist says of Beyond the Limbo Silence that Nunez has a writing style that ?will remind many Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.? Beyond the Limbo Silence was also picked by the Washington Post as one of the best books of 1998.

Elizabeth Nunez is co-editor with Jennifer Sparrow of the anthology Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad and author of several monographs of literary criticism, with emphasis on Caribbean literature.