num_pages: 304
description: The year is 1954. A white woman’s body, stuffed in a coconut bag, has washed ashore in Otatiti, Trinidad, and the British colony is rife with rumors. In two homes, one in a distant shantytown, the other on the outskirts of a former sugar cane estate, two women hear the news and their blood runs cold. Rosa, the white daughter of a landowner, and Zuela, the adopted “daughter” of a Chinese shop owner used to play together as girls—and witnessed something terrible behind a hibiscus bush many years ago.
language: English
title: Bruised Hibiscus
titlecomplete: Bruised Hibiscus
genres: Historical, Female Authors, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 162
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: American Book Award
publisher: One World