'Til the Well Runs Dry: A Novel

The New York Times Sunday Book Review ShortlistBlack Caucus of the American Library Association 2015 Honor Book in FictionBooklist Starred ReviewO The Oprah Magazine 10 Titles to Pick Up Now. Lauren Francis-Sharmas talent shines.-USA Today. A glorious and moving multigenerational multicultural saga that sweeps from the 1940s through the 1960s in Trinidad and the United States. Til the Well Runs Dry opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia a gifted and smart-mouthed sixteen-year-old seamstress lives alone raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam an ambitious young policeman (so taken with Marcia that he elicits help from a tea-brewing obeah woman to guarantee her ardor) the rewards and risks in Marcias life amplify forever. On an island rich with laughter calypso Carnival cricket beaches and salty air sweet fruits and spicy stews the novel follows Marcia and Farouk from their sassy and passionate courtship through personal and historical events that threaten Marcias secret entangle the couple and their children in a tumultuous scandal and put the future in doubt for all of them.