What Start Bad a Mornin’: Where to Buy

“What start bad a mornin’, cyan end good a evenin’.” — Jamaican proverb.

Booklist Review: “…an engaging and life-affirming read.”

If you have a favorite bookstore or library, please ask them to stock What Start Bad a Mornin’ and let us know so that we can add them to the list.

Where to buy:

Wholesale orders:

• Simon and Schuster
• Central Avenue Publishing

Bookstores in Virginia and D.C.

• Bards Alley, Vienna, VA
• New Dominion Book store, Charlottesville, VA
• Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe (signed copies)
• Scrawl Books, Reston, VA

Bookstores in Georgia

• 44th and 3rd Bookseller, Atlanta
• Charis Books and More, Decatur
• Shop the Bookworm, Powder Springs

Bookstores in Los Angeles

• Book Soup (signed copies)

Bookstores in St. Kitts and Nevis

• Bouganvillea Books and Gifts
• Harpers’

Online Print and eBook

• Amazon US
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon UK
• …And all Amazon stores
• Barnes and Noble
• Bookshop.org
• Thrift Books
• Target
• Walmart
• Tertulia
• Blackwell’s U.K.
• Rakuten Kobo

Audio book

• Audiobook via Audible
• Audio book via Koko

Libraries

If you find What Start Bad a Mornin’ in a library that’s not listed here, let me know!

• Arlington County Public Library System, Virginia, USA
• Baltimore County Public Library System
• Brooklyn Library System, New York, USA
• D.C. Public Library System
• Fairfax County Public Library System, Virginia, USA
• Loudon County Public Library System, Virginia, USA
• Pratt Library, Maryland, USA
• Prince William County Public Library System, Virginia, USA (eBook and Audio)

More purchase options to come! Please check back often as this list will be updated as other stores join in.

(Photo at St. Kitts launch October 2023. Photo credit: Garth Archibald.)

About the Book

Amaya Lin has few memories of the years before she turned eighteen. Now in her forties, she has compensated by carefully cultivating a satisfying life as a wife, mother, and business professional. Her husband’s law practice is on the brink of major success; her neurodiverse son has grown into an independent adult; and she has come to terms with her aunt’s dementia. This sense of order is disrupted when she encounters a stranger who claims to have an impossible connection, launching Amaya on a tumultuous journey into the past.

Using three interwoven narratives spanning the US, Trinidad, and Jamaica, Carol Mitchell’s debut gives voice to an immigrant woman forced to confront her repressed memories of violent trauma.