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The star side of Bird Hill /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Naomi A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Sisters > Fiction.
Grandmothers > Fiction.
Grandparent and child > Fiction.
Midwives > Fiction.
Barbados > Fiction.
Grandmothers.
Grandparent and child.
Midwives.
Sisters.
Barbados.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:298 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781594205958
1594205957