Bruised Hibiscus
, by NUNEZ, ELIZABETHNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780345451095 | 0345451090
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/4/2003
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 girlsand witnessed something terrible behind a hibiscus bush many years ago.