How the one-armed sister sweeps her house : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443460415 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
278 pages ; 23 cm
regular print - Edition: First Canadian edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021.
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Badges:
- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 2 / 5.0
Content descriptions
Awards Note: | Women's Prize for fiction shortlist, 2021. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Barbados -- Fiction Grief -- Fiction Criminal behavior -- Fiction Family violence -- Fiction Resorts -- Barbados -- Fiction |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Castlegar Campus Library | JONESC HOWTHE (Text) | B001683804 | Paperbacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
- HARPERCOLL
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 âparadiseâ
In Baxterâs Beach, Barbados, Lalaâs 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 Baxterâs Tunnels. When sheâs 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 freedomâand 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.