Nobody Wants to Get Wet
Silence, fear, and the country we keep forfeiting
Nobody Wants to Get Wet is a work of literary nonfiction about silence and fear in Guyanese public life — why people who see clearly still say nothing, what that self-protection costs, and what the country keeps forfeiting each time nobody speaks. It asks what it would take, at last, to get wet.
“Every day bucket go a well; one day the bottom must drop out.” The proverb stands at the head of the book, and the book takes it seriously. It moves through the rooms where Guyanese caution is learned and kept — the habits of holding one’s tongue, the history that taught them, and the people who got wet anyway.
This is the Press’s literary lead title: an argument conducted in prose about what a small country loses when its clearest people choose dryness, and what it would mean to stop.
Production
- ISBN (paperback)978-976-8369-21-5
- ISBN (ebook)978-976-8369-22-2
- Extent204 pp (paperback)
- Trim129 × 198 mm (B format)
- TypefaceEB Garamond
- PrinterPrinted and bound by Bookvault
- PublishedJuly 2026
- ImprintThe Sovereign Press, an imprint of The Forrester Group (Guyana), Inc.
- ErrataCorrections record
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