Books like Buxton spice by Oonya Kempadoo

Balram Halwai rises from servant to entrepreneur, revealing the brutal path of ambition and survival in modern India.

A sweeping historical novel that traces the Biafran War through the intertwined lives of Nigerian characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard.

Roxanne Fish grows up in a small Iowa town where her Pentecostal family eagerly awaits Jesus' return, while she struggles with her own faith, doubts about love, and the pull of the pop‑music world.

Sixteen‑year‑old Ree Dolly of rural Missouri must track her fugitive father through the harsh Ozark landscape before his missing‑court‑date threatens the family’s home.

In NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, Darling and her friends in the small Zimbabwean town of Paradise smile for strangers while navigating theft, charity gifts, and pop‑culture dreams of America and Britain.

Annie John follows a teenage girl’s coming‑of‑age journey on Antigua, exploring the complex bonds between mother and daughter in a vibrant island setting.

Ellen Foster follows a child who, after enduring abuse and hardship, finds a new beginning with a caring foster mother and her group of children.

Caramelo is a multigenerational story that follows Lala Reyes as she travels from Chicago to Mexico City and then to San Antonio, discovering her family's legacy of rebozo makers and the truth behind long‑held tales.

A vivid portrait of life on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the turn of the nineteenth century, following Lilith, a young enslaved woman whose emerging powers draw her into a secret rebel faction.

Two girls from India form an unbreakable bond that takes them from a broken village to the streets of Seattle, as they confront poverty, family expectations, and violence while chasing each other across continents.

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know and where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.

Set in 1937 on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, the novel follows Amabelle, an orphaned maid, and Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, as they navigate love and persecution amid looming terror.

In July 1963, two West Virginia sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy undergo a transformation during a girls’ camp, confronting violence, family secrets, and the untamed Appalachian wilderness.

"Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Karen Yamashita presents an L.A. where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of highway struck by disaster. The Harbor Freeway crisis becomes the apex of events - caused by an orange, which has been brought to L.A. from just north of Mazatlan, dragging with it the Tropic of Cancer." "Rafaela, caretaking Gabriel's getaway home in Mexico, discovers a dealer of human body parts and flees north, joining a performer/laborer named Arcangel. Meanwhile, Gabriel, a news reporter in L.A., has been following leads in which seemingly unrelated events mysteriously unite as the homeless take up residence in abandoned Mercedes, lowriders, and Cads, and an aged Asian American sansei conducts symphonies from a freeway overpass." "Emi, T.V. executive and Gabriel's girlfriend, along with Buzzworm, his connection to the streets, get caught in the middle of this mounting wildfire just as the cast of characters - diverse as the city itself - assembles for the final event. Tropic of Orange is an apocalypse of race, class, and culture, fanned by the media under the harsh L.A. sun."--BOOK JACKET.

Laura Moriarty’s debut novel, The Center of Everything, follows a young woman’s journey from Kansas to New York as she navigates motherhood, genius, and first love, all portrayed with warmth and poignancy.

Grace Davitt, an eight‑year‑old Vermont girl, navigates the contrasting worlds of her mother, an obsessed ornithologist, and her rationalist father, uncovering myths, mysteries, and hidden loyalties on a journey from her lakeside town to New Orleans, Nevada, California, and back.