How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK"Searing . . . In affluent Baxter's Beach, the gentry of Barbados maneuver around their servants with velvet gloves and steel nerves, exposing fault lines of resentment, love as ephemeral as a tropical breeze.&” (O Magazine)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.One of 2021's Most Anticipated New FictionThe Millions * Lit Hub * O Magazine * Elle.com * Entertainment Weekly * Minneapolis Star-Tribune * Bustle
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 240 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780316537001
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780316536981
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company
- Date of Addition:
- 09/22/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Cherie Jones
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.