num_pages: 278
description: A debut novel in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James from a brilliant Caribbean writer set in Barbados about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called paradise. In Baxter Beach Barbados moneyed ex-pats clash with the locals who often end up serving them: braiding their hair minding their children and selling them drugs. Lala lives on the beach with her husband Adan a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the Baxter 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 by desperation and greed who attempt a crime that will risk their freedom -- and their lives.
language: English
title: How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
publisher: Little, Brown and Company