A testament to the enduring wisdom and strength of Caribbean women.
ABOUT A DIFFERENT ENERGY
Over the last decade, as global energy has become hyper-focused on the Southern Caribbean (Guyana, Suriname, and longtime producer, Trinidad and Tobago), the role and opinions of local women have too often been overlooked. In this compelling, first-of-its-kind book, award-winning lawyer-turned-writer Celeste Mohammed remedies that omission.
In powerful, eye-opening portraits of eight Trini, Surinamese and Guyanese women who are employed in the Caribbean oil and gas industry, Mohammed uses a range of styles – memoir, interview and profile – to keep the gender conversation refreshingly candid, often humorous, and always thought-provoking.
With a voice both earnest and confiding, intellectual and intimate, this book’s commentary and analysis extract from the women’s stories lessons for any woman seeking to defy odds, shatter stereotypes, and forge paths in a business culture which underestimates her.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT A DIFFERENT ENERGY
“Sobering and illuminating. A must-read for anyone wondering where the women are in oil and where they could be.”
Myriam J. A. Chancy, author of Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters
“Using a series of interviews with women in a male-dominated oil industry, Celeste Mohammed has produced a brilliant and necessary book that deftly crisscrosses between academia, essay, storytelling and journalism.”
Ira Mathur, author of Love The Dark Days, 2023 Winner of the Bocas Prize for Literature (Non-Fiction)
“A brilliant author trains her gaze on an important feminist issue- Celeste Mohammed’s range as a writer is amazing. This book should be required reading in women’s studies classes.”
Cindy House, author of Mother Noise: A Memoir.
ABOUT CELESTE MOHAMMED
Celeste has been a lawyer since 2001, but she has been telling stories all her life.
Celeste Mohammed is a Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer and the author of “Pleasantview”(Ig, Jacaranda, 2021; Ouida, 2022) which won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the UK Society of Authors McKitterick Prize for Fiction.
Celeste holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her short stories have won numerous awards including a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize.
Celeste’s goal is to dispel all myths about island life and island people and to highlight the various points of intersection between the Caribbean and the wider world.A Different Energy is Celeste’s Non-Fiction debut.
WHERE TO GET A DIFFERENT ENERGY
A Different Energy: Women in Caribbean Oil and Gas
International orders
Order online via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and all major booksellers
In Trinidad and the Caribbean, order from:
Paper based Bookshop
14 Alcazar Street,St. Clair
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