How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

“Searing . . . In affluent Baxter’s Beach, the gentry of Barbados maneuver around their servants with velvet gloves and steel nerves, exposing fault lines of resentment, love as ephemeral as a tropical breeze. (O Magazine)

In Baxters Beach, Barbados, Lalas grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. Its a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxters Tunnels. When shes grown, Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the 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 into the Tunnels by desperation and greed who attempt a crime that will risk their freedom and their lives.

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her Houseis an intimate and visceral portrayal of interconnected lives, across race and class, in a rapidly changing resort town, told by an astonishing new author of literary fiction.

One of 2021’s Most Anticipated New Fiction
The Millions * Lit Hub * O Magazine * Elle.com * Entertainment Weekly * Minneapolis Star-Tribune * Bustle

• Publisher:Little, Brown and Company (February 2, 2021)
• Language:English
• Hardcover:288 pages
• ISBN-10:0316536989
• ISBN-13:9780316536981
• Item Weight:1.06 pounds
• Dimensions:6.38 x 1 x 9.5 inches