Kipling Plass

Moving, shocking, lyrical and sometimes grimly funny, Kipling Plass must survive as teenager abandoned by his mother after her mental breakdown. Set in a multiracial Guyanese village in the 1980s, at the height of that country's economic collapse, as social structures give way, the novel confronts the tensions between social solidarity and dog-eat-dog individualistic ruthlessness. Amid this, Kipling Plass narrates his and his teenage friends' struggles for both physical and emotional survival, amidst their own confusions of sexual and social identity. A heartbreaking story of family trauma, sexuality, friendship and growing up, Kipling Plass is an epic portrayal of 1980s Guyana that is rarely seen in fiction.

Author: Berkley Wendell Semple
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: 12/05/2024
Pages: 332
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781845235925
ISBN10: 1845235924
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage

About the Author
Berkley Wendell Semple was born in Guyana. He has published four collections of poetry, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in Callaloo, The Hampden-Sydney Review, The Caribbean Writer, and many other publications. He is a veteran of the US armed forces and a graduate of the Naval School of Health Sciences. He holds an MA and MLS degrees from (CUNY) and an MPhil from Long Island University (LIU) where he is a current Ph.D. candidate. Berkley Wendell Semple is a librarian and currently works for the Queens Public Library system in New York City.