The Star Side of Bird Hill
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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.
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Lovely submitted by willow on July 16, 2015, 5:14pm This is a wonderful story of two sisters who leave New York to go to Barbados to stay with their grandmother, and how they grow to understand the different island culture. It is beautifully written story with complex insights into women's lives.
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New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1594205957
9781594205958
SUBJECTS
Sisters -- Fiction.
Grandmothers -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
Midwives -- Fiction.
Barbados -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.