Description:
A Different Energy sounds a call for a more diverse, inclusive and equitable development of one of the world's most male-dominated domains: the oil and gas industry.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"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
"A brilliant and necessary book that deftly crisscrosses between academia, essay, storytelling and journalism."
- Ira Mathur
2023 Winner of the Bocas Prize for Literature (Non-Fiction)
"This book should be required reading in women's studies classes."
- Cindy House, author of Mother Noise: A Memoir