Pleasantview is the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize Fiction Winner

Pleasantview, Celeste Mohammed’s “novel in stories,” has been named the winner in the fiction category by the OCM Bocas Prize judges, who call it “an accomplished and powerful debut …. In Mohammed, we have found an exciting new talent.” Set in a fictional but immediately recognisable community in contemporary Trinidad, Pleasantview “has found a daring new way to paint the portrait of a community” through a series of interlocking stories and repeating characters, remark the judges. “Pleasantview is a gripping read, written with a deep sense of connection to people and place, both affectionate and loving, while clear-eyed and critical.”