How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House: A Novel

"There’s a crime at the beginning of this novel, but it isn’t crime fiction – it’s a noirish Caribbean-set drama. Starting with a young woman’s act of defiance and the botched robbery of a wealthy British visitor, tragic events occur in quick succession in a far-from-idyllic fictional island community. The full consequences and interconnectedness of those events are revealed at a slower pace, however. Alternating between generations, time periods and characters’ points of view, Barbadian author Cherie Jones unveils an absorbing and authentic allegory of race, class, and intergenerational trauma."