02453cam a2200469 i 4500 478686862 TxAuBib 20210119120000.0 210119s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2020077780 9780316536981 HRD 27.00 0316536989 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib rda Jones, Cherie, 1974- How the one-armed sister sweeps her house : a novel / Cherie Jones. How the one-armed sister sweeps her house : a novel. How the 1-armed sister sweeps her house : a novel. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. 278 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados. "In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. It's a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. When she's 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20210123. jz. Women Barbados Fiction. Social classes Barbados Fiction. Abused women Fiction. Criminals Fiction. Marriage Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Crime Barbados Fiction. Resorts Barbados Fiction. Island life Fiction. Islands Fiction. Barbados Fiction. Novels. Domestic fiction. Social problem fiction.