In paradise, every story hides a wound.
On the glittering beaches of Barbados, beneath the sun and sand of Baxter’s Beach, lives are bound together by violence and longing. Lala grows up with her grandmother’s warning about the one-armed sister, a tale meant to keep girls safe from the dangers that lurk beneath the surface. But adulthood brings its own traps.
When her husband’s botched robbery ignites a chain of tragedy, Lala’s world collides with that of the wealthy tourists and desperate locals who share the same fragile shore.
Cherie Jones’s How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is a fierce, heart-wrenching novel about class, power, and survival in a paradise built on pain—a story as luminous as it is devastating.
