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Bruised Hibiscus

Elizabeth Nunez

The year is 1954. A white woman s body, stuffed in a coconut bag, has washed ashore in Otatiti, Trinidad, and the British colony is rife with rumors. In two homes, one in a distant shantytown, the other on the outskirts of a former sugar cane estate, two women hear the news and their blood runs cold. Rosa, the white daughter of a landowner, and Zuela, the adopted daughter of a Chinese shop owner used to play together as girls and witnessed something terrible behind a hibiscus bush many years ago."

Book Details

  • Publisher: One World
  • Publish Date: Mar 4th, 2003
  • Pages: 304
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Ballantine - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.40in - 0.60in - 0.75lb
  • EAN: 9780345451095
  • Categories: LiteraryAfrican American & Black - GeneralWomen

About the Author

Elizabeth Nunez, PhD, is the bestselling author of 10 novels, including Bruised Hibiscus, winner of an American Book Award. Nunez's book Boundaries was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. She immigrated to the United States from Trinidad and is a distinguished professor at Hunter College, the City University of New York.