Unburnable - a work of literary fiction that is at once a love story, a murder mystery, a multigenerational epic, and a reinterpretation of Black history - defies neat categorization.  Covering the African Diaspora, this riveting narrative of family, betrayal, vengeance, and murder, follows Lillian Baptiste as she is willed back to her island home of Dominica from Washington, D.C. to finally settle her past. Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian left Dominica when she was 14 years old after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy Carib woman; and the granddaughter of Matilda, convicted and hung for murder.  Their infamous lives were told of in chante mas songs sung during Carnival --  songs  about a village on a mountaintop and bones and bodies, about African masquerades and a man who dropped dead. Lillian knows these Carnival songs - thus the history - belongs to her. After 20 years away, she returns to face the demons of her past, and with the help of Teddy, the man she has until now refused to love, she is determined to find her answers. Set partly in contemporary Washington, D.C. and partly in the Caribbean island of Dominica, Unburnable is the dazzling debut of a talented writer who deftly intertwines the African-American experience with authentic Caribbean culture and history - the Caribs, the Maroons, the African origins of Carnival, the practice of Obeah - and in doing so, showcases a new literary voice confident enough to also deliver a page-turner.