The Star Side of Bird Hill: A Novel

The Star Side of Bird Hill: A Novel

Two sisters are suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Barbados to live with their grandmother, in Naomi Jacksonâ€™s stunning debut novel
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This lyrical novel of community, betrayal, and love centers on an unforgettable matriarchal family in Barbados. Two sisters, ages ten and sixteen, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live for the summer of 1989 with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah.
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Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmotherâ€™s limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations, accompanies her grandmother in her role as a midwife, and investigates their motherâ€™s mysterious life.
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This tautly paced coming-of-age story builds to a crisis when the father they barely know comes to Bird Hill to reclaim his daughters, and both Phaedra and Dionne must choose between the Brooklyn they once knew and loved or the Barbados of their family.
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Naomi Jacksonâ€™s Barbados and her characters are singular, especially the wise Hyacinth and the heartbreaking young Phaedra, who is coming into her own as a young woman amid the tumult of her family.
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Praise for The Star Side of Bird Hill:
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â€œOnce in a while, youâ€™ll stumble onto a book like this, one so poetic in its descriptions and so alive with lovable, frustrating, painfully real characters, that your emotional response to it becomes almost physical. . . . The dual coming-of-age story alone could melt the sternest of hearts, but Jacksonâ€™s exquisite prose is a marvel too. . . . A gem of a book.â€ â€”Entertainment WeeklyÂ (A)
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-08-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780143109167

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2016-08-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780143109167

The Star Side of Bird Hill: A Novel

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