The girl with the golden shoes
Subtitle: a novella
By: by Colin Channer ; with an afterword by Russell Banks.
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781933354262
Description: Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's lived all her life.