Sugar Island

Plot Summary

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.

1.0 /10

2025

ESDO

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ritual

migration

spirituality

hair

burden

haitian

colonialism

social activism

unwanted pregnancy

motherhood

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enslavement

dominican

sugarcane

granddaughter

juxtapositions

queer

black identity

prose

youth

latin american

teenager

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