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BEVERLEY-ANN SCOTT
Dr. Scott's flagship novel is The Stolen Cascadura which, in 2012, was selected for use in a nationwide project. This project saw the book being read in book clubs and libraries throughout Trinidad and Tobago. Her second novel, Is America She Gone?, tells the story of a Caribbean mother who travels to the United States in search of a better life. All her novels tell Caribbean stories which are unique in their own way and which encourage discussion on issues affecting Caribbean people.
The Stolen Cascadura
Eddy is an ambitious teenager. He attends one of the most prestigous boy’s colleges on the island and has big dreams for his life and future. The only problem is that he lives on the Beetham.The stigma of crime, drugs, violence and poverty would always be associated with people from that area. Being the best friend of the son of one of the richest and most influential men in the local business world certainly does not help. The two are like brothers until Brian almost loses his life at the hands of money hungry kidnappers. It is only when the chips begin to fall around Eddy, that the secret he has sought desperately to hide becomes revealed.
Jesse Guevara is the eldest of five and the daughter of simple Santa Cruz Valley farmers. She is smart and beautiful and her teachers at St. Joseph’s Convent believe that she will be able to get a scholarship. Lisa is her best friend and although faced with the challenge of living with an alcoholic replacement for her father never loses her joie de vivrè.
Jesse, Brian, Eddy and Lisa are all from different backgrounds. However, when the lives of these four young people and their families collide through circumstance, their vulnerability is exposed. Each of them discovers that there is something they hold dear to their hearts. Something that once stolen can never be replaced.
Is America She Gone?
When Sandra, a single mother of two, decides to go to Brooklyn and work illegally for six months as a caregiver, she really believes that she will be able to make a lot of money in a short space of time. Encouraged by her cousin Patsy who lives in Brooklyn, Sandra leaves her children Antonio and Andrea behind, in the hope that she will be able to make a better life for them.
In the diverse community of Brooklyn with its large West Indian population, she feels very much at home. However after a few unfortunate encounters, Sandra soon realizes that America is not quite the place that she naively imagined it to be. She questions the wisdom of her decision many times but in her desire to send barrels home to her children, she loses sight of what is truly important – family.
Andrea and Antonio face many challenges, as they struggle to cope with their mother's absence. Their father, who has started a new family, does not offer much parental support. Soon they fall prey to bad company and it is only a matter of time before their lives become irreversibly changed.
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