After I had finished the final revision of my debut novel, Under the Tamarind Tree: A Novel, and was sending out query letters to literary agents and publishers, my close friend, American poet...

Under the Tamarind Tree is set in Guyana, the land of my birth, during the period 1950 to 1970. Although I recall isolated events of the “racial disturbances” of the 1960s, I was too young to ...

Learn more about the characters in Rosaliene's novel and their relationship to the protagonist, Richard Cheong.

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