The God of Good Looks The book opens on a

The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978

at once sublime

and the legacies of racism and colonialism in a lush setting and stunning prose that asks who pays for the sins of our ancestors

and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later

The God of Good Looks The book opens on aHardcover, like new Bianca Bridge has always dreamt of becoming a writer. But Trinidadian society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married government official is a sure fire way to ruin your prospects. So when Obadiah Cortland, a notoriously tyrannical entrepreneur in the islands beauty scene, offers her a job, Bianca accepts, realizing that working on his magazine is the closest to her dreams shell get. As Bianca begins to embrace her