How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novel
Cherie Jones, "How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novel"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0316536989, 1472268784 | 288 pages | EPUB | 0.672 MB
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0316536989, 1472268784 | 288 pages | EPUB | 0.672 MB
In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. It’s a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter’s Tunnels. When she’s grown, 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 will risk their freedom – and their lives.
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is an intimate and visceral portrayal of interconnected lives, across race and class, in a rapidly changing resort town, told by an astonishing new author of literary fiction.