Book Review : The Cayman Hustle by Devi Di Guida

The Cayman Hustle by Devi Di Guida is her debut novel which was released in October 2016. The Cayman Hustle is about a 25-year-old deaf college graduate, Kaman Colioni, whose life is on the downslide.  The only girl he has ever loved, India Weinberger is now ex-girlfriend, leaving him heartbroken. He couldn’t find a job much less get his foot through the door for an interview. To top it off, Om-7, his hearing device is malfunctioning making him hear things that are sending his brain into overdrive.

The story of The Cayman Hustle by Devi Di Guida takes a turn when a mysterious fan of Kaman’s popular deaf blog offers him a ticket to the Cayman Islands. And, He grabs the opportunity to hustle down a job.  His arrival in this Caribbean Paradise coincides with the appointment of a new governor. Here, Kaman finds his life taking a 360-degree spin.

The Cayman Hustle gets more thrilling when within a weekend, he gets rolled, losing his money and identification, runs into his ex-psychotherapist who lures him into writing a memoir about being deaf, unwittingly stumbles into a stash of gold in a tropical underwater rainforest and is set up for possession of illegal substances which lands him in prison.  During his incarceration, he learns that the gold was in fact, a billionaire’s secret game and ensconced within the loot was a Brazilian tourmaline rumored to be a rare rainbow-colored chakra stone that’s worth millions.

There is still more left to The Cayman Hustle as Kaman is bailed out from prison by his conniving ex-psychotherapist who steals his hearing device. The unsuspecting Kaman struggles for survival as he is drawn into a world of scandals, felonious affairs and intrigue where his life and that of the governor becomes intermeshed. Who can a deaf man trust?

About the Author : Devi Di Guida

Devi Di Gurumoredborn in Guyana. She studied French as a second language at McGill University and Creative Writing at Concordia University. For the past fifteen years she has worked as a technical writer. She lives in Montreal, Canada with her Italian husband Joseph and their three children.

While vacationing in The Cayman Islands, she met a 25-year old deaf college student on a beach who was studying neuroscience. This, and her deaf sister influenced her into writing The Cayman Hustle with a deaf protagonist. Currently, she is working on her next novel titled The Chakra Stone.