num_pages: 304
description: After their mother can no longer care for them young Phaedra and her older sister Dionne are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados to live with their grandmother Hyacinth a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah.Dionne spends the summer in search of love testing her grandmother's limits and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill where her family has lived for generations accompanies her grandmother in her role as a midwife and investigates their mother's mysterious life.When the father they barely know comes to Bird Hill to reclaim his daughters and both Phaedra and Dionne must choose between the Brooklyn they once knew and loved or the Barbados of their family.
language: English
title: The Star Side of Bird Hill
publisher: Penguin Press