Books on Tap: How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
99411 Overseas Hwy Unit 6
Key Largo
May 28
6:00-7:45 p.m.
Join us at Keys’ Meads on the 4th Tuesday of the month. Borrow the book from the Key Largo Library, or the Libby app. Drinks are available for purchase.
From the Publisher:
In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a brilliant Caribbean writer delivers a powerful story about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called “paradise.”
In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. It’s a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter’s Tunnels. When she’s grown, 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. A gunshot no one was meant to witness. A new mother whose baby is found lifeless on the beach. A woman torn between two worlds and incapacitated by grief. And two men driven into the Tunnels by desperation and greed who attempt a crime that will risk their freedom – and their lives.
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is an intimate and visceral portrayal of interconnected lives, across race and class, in a rapidly changing resort town, told by an astonishing new author of literary fiction.
One of 2021’s Most Anticipated New Fiction
The Millions * Lit Hub * O Magazine * Elle.com * Entertainment Weekly * Minneapolis Star-Tribune * Bustle
Keys’ Meads
99411 Overseas Hwy. Unit 6, Key Largo (across from CVS, Oceanside)
May 28: How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House/Cherie Jones
June 25: Charlotte’s Story: A Florida Keys Diary 1934 & 1935/Charlotte Niedhauk
July 23: Hello Beautiful/Ann Napolitano
Book Titles Subject to Change Based on Book Club Kit Availability