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Lauren Francis-Sharma is a former corporate lawyer turned novelist whose critically acclaimed first novel was published at 39 years old.

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Lauren, a child of Trinidadian immigrants has written about the Caribbean in both her novels. “‘Til the Well Runs Dry” loosely recounts the story of her grandmother’s mid-20th century journey to the United States, with feature articles in both the Washington Post in July 2014 and The Baltimore Sun in March 2015. Her latest, “Book of the Little Axe,” takes place in the late 18th century to the early 19th century, from the changing colonial rule on the island of Trinidad to the rugged terrain of Bighorn Mountain in western North America.

 
 
 
 

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Book of the Little Axe

The 2020 American Library Association’s “Libraries Transform Book Pick”

A masterfully wrought epic, spanning decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American West. Against a backdrop of colonialism and westward expansion, Francis-Sharma’s characters seek desperately to understand where they belong.

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‘Til The Well Runs Dry

Short-Listed for William Saroyan International Prize for Writing Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2015 Honor for Fiction‘

Til the Well Runs Dry opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed 16-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret.

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