Guest Authors: Carol Mitchell

Conversation Partner: Oneika Phillips

Festival 5 is a true celebration of Caribbean culture, language and literature in diverse ways! This year, we are proud to be the official launch platform for What Start Bad A’ Mornin', the highly anticipated debut adult novel by Carol Mitchell, aptly named after an old Jamaican proverb which ends with a hollow resignation, “...cyah good a’ evening.”

Using three interwoven narratives spanning the United States, Trinidad, and Jamaica, Carol Mitchell's debut gives voice to an immigrant woman forced to confront her repressed memories of violent trauma. Only then can she discover what she is capable of when it comes to self-preservation and the protection of her family.

Carol Mitchell will be in conversation with Katia D. Ulysse, writer, educator and friend of the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival. Join us for birthday cake and sips as we celebrate milestone after milestone in the journey of Caribbean storytellers and this remarkable story.