In the crowded lanes of Kingston, Dwayne Baptiste rises before dawn each day to do what he has always done: survive, provide, and protect. For his children, Malik and Shanice, he is willing to carry any burden. But when poverty, violence, heartbreak, and impossible choices begin closing in from every direction, Dwayne must confront a painful truth: no one can carry a family alone.

Carrying Kingston is a moving literary novel about fatherhood, community, and the quiet heroism of ordinary people. Filled with richly drawn characters and the rhythms of Jamaican life, it explores how love endures even in the harshest circumstances and how hope is built one difficult day at a time.