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Title Statement | How the one-armed sister sweeps her house / Cherie Jones. |
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Alternative Title(s) | How the 1 armed sister sweeps her house |
Author | Jones, Cherie, 1974- |
Publication | Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.,2021. |
Extent of Item | 288 pages ; |
ISBN | 1443460419 (pbk.) 9781443460415 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3792333 |
Summary | In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a debut novel, set in Barbados, about four people confronting violence and love in a beachfront "paradise" In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. When she's grown-up, Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. A gunshot no one was meant to witness. A new mother whose baby is found lifeless on the beach. A woman torn between two worlds and incapacitated by grief. And two men, driven into the Tunnels by desperation and greed, who attempt a crime that may cost them their freedom - and their lives. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Grief--Fiction |
Criminals--Fiction | |
Family violence--Fiction | |
Resorts--Fiction | |
By Location | Barbados--Fiction |