Children of Paradise
His fourth novel, "Bethany Bettany" (2003), centres on a five-year-old Guyanese girl, Bethany, whose suffering has been read by some as symbolising that of a nation (Guyana) seeking to make itself whole again. His 2014 novel "Children of Paradise" is a fictional reimagining of the Jonestown massacre told through the perspective of a mother and child living at the commune.