How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House ★★★★☆

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★★★★☆

How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones is a fiction book set in the Caribbean following a number of inter-related characters.

I checked this book out from the library and read it while I was on leave from having shoulder surgery.

Lala is in an abusive relationship with Adan, a robber who killed Mrs. Whalen's husband during a robbery gone wrong. Mrs. Whalen struggles to move forward. Tone, Adan's best friend, is hopelessly in love with Lala and makes money by selling his body to tourists. These 4 character's stories of violence are set against a backdrop of Barbados, what many call paradise. Through learning each character's history, you can see how they got to the point they're at - but it's still a surprise how they end up by the last page.

Trigger warning this book has a lot of violence, much of which is pretty heavy and sad - but it's also honest with vivid character development that weaves through multiple generations and multiple perspectives. With no one-armed characters, the book claims it's story from local folklore passed down from grandmother to granddaughter with the message that you should listen to your mother.

Fun Fact: Jones is also a lawyer

If you liked How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, I also recommend Of Women and Salt by Gabriella Garcia, These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card, The Mothers by Brit Bennett, and Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson.

Happy reading -

Ms.Bjork

P.S. So excited to start all my spooky books now that it's October!