Jako Books is pleased to announce that Dr. Anderson Reynolds will follow his October 21 Los Angeles Book Reading and Signing with a Book Signing in New York on Sunday 28 October starting at 11AM at the Saint Lucia House Foundation Jounen Kweyol Celebration, to be held at 438 East 49th Street Brooklyn, New York.
Both the Los Angeles and New York book events are a continuation of the author’s international book tour that started last year with the publication of The Stall Keeper, during which he visited three countries and made six-city stops.
The Stall Keeper, Dr. Reynolds third book and second novel, is set in his hometown of Vieux Fort, St. Lucia, and uses the American World War II occupation of the town as backdrop.
The writings of Dr. Reynolds, be it fiction or nonfiction, has been described as a world in which a great drama unfolds where history, geography, nature, culture, the supernatural, and socioeconomic and political factors all combine to seal the fate of its characters. In this crucible of a world, readers are provided with deep insights into where St. Lucians come from, who they are as a people, and how they became who they are. If so, then readers are in for a treat, because The Stall Keeper provides deep insights into the forces that have shaped Vieux Fort; it speaks to the very character of the town, and throws light on long unanswered questions about why Vieux Fort is the way it is.
Unsurprisingly, The Stall Keeper has garnered much praise. For example, CARICOM economist and diplomat, Peter Lansiquot, said: “The Stall Keeper should be read by every Saint Lucian man, woman, child and professor of literature! … This delectable bowl of hot, steaming Lucian bouillon, spiced up with canelles and calaloo … crafted by the most articulately exciting Lucian craftsman of the written word I have met to date, made me laugh, giggle, ponderous, sad and glad, all at once … made me immensely proud to be Lucian!” In Dr. Reynolds, St. Lucia has produced another writer of the calibre, or of even deeper essence than Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul.“ And poet and novelist, McDonald Dixon, said: “The Stall Keeper is the best novel to come out of St. Lucia.”
Born and raised in Vieux Fort, St. Lucia, Anderson Reynolds holds a Ph.D. in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida. In recent years, Dr. Reynolds has emerged as one of St. Lucia’s most prominent and prolific writers. His first book, the novel, Death by Fire, won the 2001 M&C main award for literature. His second, The Struggle for Survival: an historical, political and socioeconomic perspective of St. Lucia, won a 2003 M&C prize for prose. An earlier unpublished version of The Stall Keeper won the 2012 National Arts Award for prose. The author’s featured articles in St. Lucian magazines and newspapers won him a 2001 M&C literature award for creative journalism, and similarly a 2006 National Arts Award. The Stall Keeper along with Dr. Reynolds‘ journalistic pieces on Vieux Fort have established him as one of the island’s foremost authority on Vieux Fort ’s socioeconomic history.
We would like to encourage everyone to join us at the St. Lucia House on Sunday 28 October starting at 11AM to celebrate Jounen Kweyol and experience authentic St. Lucian culture, and to meet Dr. Anderson Reynolds and become better acquainted with his books and his body of work.
Next year, the author will be publishing his fourth book, a memoir, My Father Is No Longer There, to be followed by an international tour. If your organization would like Dr. Reynolds to make a tour-stop at your city, please email (info@jakoproductions.com) or call us (758-712-8024).
Following are links to reports on Dr. Reynolds 2017 International Book Tour
Toronto
Atlanta
Washington DC
New York
London
Connecticut
