Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lady Moses | 1998 | Lucinda Roy | Buy |
| 2 | The Hotel Alleluia | 2000 | Lucinda Roy | Buy |
Lucinda Roy’s two standalone literary novels were published in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before her turn toward speculative fiction. Both books explore questions of identity, race, and belonging through characters who exist between cultures.
Lady Moses (1998) tells the story of Jacinta Moses, a mixed-race woman raised in England who struggles to find where she belongs in a world that wants to categorize her. The Hotel Alleluia (2000) continues Roy’s exploration of displacement and identity through another protagonist navigating the complexities of race and home. The novels draw on Roy’s own multicultural background as a Jamaican-British-American writer.