01857cam a2200409 i 4500 615928228 TxAuBib 20230113120000.0 210127s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020946936 9780316536981 hardcover 0316536989 hardcover (OCoLC)1233072909 TxAuBib rda Jones, Cherie, 1974- How the one-armed sister sweeps her house : a novel / Cherie Jones. How the 1-armed sister sweeps her house. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. ©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 her a cautionary tale of the one-armed sister, and what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. Now 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. -- adapted from jacket. 20230113. Women Barbados Fiction. Social classes Barbados Fiction. Criminals Fiction. People with disabilities Fiction. Barbados Fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Social problem fiction. Novels.