Book Event: Camille U. Adams with Niama Safia Sandy

In partnership with the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, local Trinidadian author Camille U. Adams launches her debut memoir-in-essays!

A Pre-Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Reading

Book Launch: Camille U. Adams presents How to Be Unmothered

In conversation with Niama Safia Sandy

Cocktail reception to follow

In partnership with the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, local Trinidadian author Camille U. Adams launches her debut memoir at Greenlight! In How to Be Unmothered, writer and cultural worker Camille U. Adams crafts a memoir-in-essays that traverses loss, migration, and the delicate work of self-remaking. It is a narrative of what it means to live without a mother figure, and how the act of unmothering – whether by death, estrangement, or silence – can become both wound and womb. Told with searing honesty and lyrical precision, Adams’s debut is a meditation on grief, lineage, and the rituals we create in the absence of the ones we longed for. This event continues the BCLF’s deep and ongoing excavation of Caribbean motherhood – a theme we have returned to in years past through poetry, fiction, and conversation. How to Be Unmothered furthers that exploration with grace, bravery, and emotional clarity.In conversation with multidisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural strategist Niama Safia Sandy, Adams will reflect on the making of the book, the ancestral silences it confronts, and what it means to mother oneself into becoming.

This gathering, ahead of the full bloom of the 2025 festival, is not only a celebration of a new work, but also a kind of vigil. An intimate communion with the stories that root and remake us.