No Straight Road

No Straight Road
By Mark Boodie

Dwayne has learned to take life as it comes. Work is uncertain, money moves quickly, and most days are spent adjusting rather than planning. But at home, things are beginning to change. His mother's health demands more than he can postpone, and his younger sister's future depends on choices he can no longer avoid.

Set along the East Bank of Demerara, No Straight Road follows Dwayne through the steady pressures of family, work, and responsibility in a Guyanese landscape that feels lived-in and real. As opportunities appear-some honest, some less so-he must decide what kind of life he is willing to build, not in a single moment, but through the small, repeated actions that shape each day.

This is not a story of sudden transformation. It is a story of adjustment, of learning to carry weight without stepping away from it, and of finding a way forward when there is no straight path to follow.

For readers who appreciate literary fiction grounded in place and character, No Straight Road offers a quiet, powerful exploration of change, resilience, and the work of becoming steady in an unsteady world.