Diana's Dog-Heart out-paces Usain Bolt to the finish line for the Number 1 Book on the BOOKOPHILIA List of the top 20 books...2010

www.yardedge.net/books/bookophilias-top-20-books-of-2010

I LOVE that book.

Thanks so much for writing it, Diana, and for Calabash Festival organizaers for putting you on stage to showcase your amazing book.

I own the book and I love it. Great Job!
Is there anyway I could get it autographed?

DOG-HEART: Winner of the 2008 Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's Creative Writing Competition

Diana In Her Own Words At The Book Launch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkR1zFtynUQ

Diana's Website & A Taste From The Book:
www.dianamccaulay.com/dogheart.htm

I bought the book at the Calabash Festival, Diana was kind enough to autograph it, and trust me, I've loaned it to more persons to read . . . all love it, including me!

Thanks everybody - this really warms my heart. Diana

We found this Review of Dog-Heart by Leslie-Gail in GoodReads very helpful and along the lines that stirred our iron pots pon reading, creeping and exulting in self recognition and identity when book done...the novel doesn't end...it foams in your conscience & consciousness.

Excellent! As a Jamaican, and even more a Kingstonian, I could identify with the issues addressed in this book.
The issues of race and class that are still very much alive in the Jamaican society. Diana McCaulay's style is effortless - she captures the reader's attention from start to finish.

The book's portrayal of the two main characters Sahara and Dexter span age, race, sex, and class. The perspectives of a uptown mulatto woman, and a poor black male child were so vivid. Usually authors take one perspective, but McCaulay gave life to two.

Sadly as a middle class Jamaican, I could see a lot of myself in Sahara's character. Thoughts one would never dare to vocalize. Yet McCaulay provided me with the opportunity to understand the world of our less fortunate. Albeit Dexter and Sahara are fictional they do reflect the stark realities of present day Jamaica.

The shade of your skin, class, education and contacts are still tools for social advancement. The book was heartbreaking not just pertaining to the tragedies that occur, but in highlighting the desperation and hopelessness that many impoverished people have to endure.

The ending is by no means a fairytale, but it does offer some hope.

Thank you, "two", Diana for your radical sensitivity and protection and enlightened conversations with and understanding of Madda Earth...no coastal environment (mangrove, wave motions, dunes, turtle migrations...), geological phenomenon (cockpits, rain forests, luminous lagoons..), Nature's beauties' bounty are far from your concerns. Your stewardship in raising of awareness of matters ecological in TB and your sense of belonging here will always be appreciated and admired.
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Other Reviews:
"This book should be read by every Jamaican, especially by those who are afraid to venture below Cross Roads." (Ralph Thompson)
www.dianamccaulay.com/reviews.htm