The star side of Bird Hill
By: Naomi Jackson
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781594205958
Subjects: Sisters; Midwives; Grandmothers; Grandparent and child; Fiction
Description: Suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados after their mother can no longer care for them, sisters Phaedra and Dionne spend the summer of 1989 living with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah.