How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Jones, Cherie
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"'Let me tell you about a little girl like you that didn't listen to her mother.' And Wilma tells Lala the story of the One-Armed Sister."
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother, Wilma, tells her a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of those around her, and suffers as a result.
When Lala grows up, she sees the story offers hope - of life and love after losing a baby in the most terrible of circumstances and marrying the wrong man.
And Mira Whalen? Her story is about…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
"'Let me tell you about a little girl like you that didn't listen to her mother.' And Wilma tells Lala the story of the One-Armed Sister."

In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother, Wilma, tells her a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of those around her, and suffers as a result.

When Lala grows up, she sees the story offers hope - of life and love after losing a baby in the most terrible of circumstances and marrying the wrong man.

And Mira Whalen? Her story is about keeping alive, trying to make sense of the fact that her husband has been murdered, and that she didn't get the chance to tell him that she loved him after all.

HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE is a powerful, visceral novel of lives across race and class, and of the sacrifices some women make to survive.
Autorenporträt
Cherie Jones is a lawyer based in Barbados. She won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 1999. She then studied Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam in 2015, where she won both the Archie Markham Award and the A.M. Heath Prize. In 2015 she was also awarded a full fellowship from the Vermont Studio Centre. A collection of inter-connected stories set in a different small community in Barbados won the third prize in the Frank Collymore Endowment Awards in 2016
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A crime-riddled literary novel, Jones's atmospheric debut has a multiracial, multigenerational cast who are brilliantly and even-handedly portrayed Sunday Times