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"There, in a lush landscape of fire-petaled immortelle trees and vast plantations of coffee and cocoa, where the three hills along the southern coast act as guardians against hurricanes, Krystal A. Sital grew up idolizing her grandfather, a wealthy Hindu landowner. Years later, to escape crime and economic stagnation on the island, the family resettled in New Jersey, where Krystal's mother works as a nanny, and the warmth of Trinidad seems a pretty yet distant memory. But when her grandfather lapses into a coma after a fall at home, the women he has terrorized for decades begin to speak, and…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2018Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 352 pages · 9780393609271
- Other · English · 2018W.W. Norton & Company · 337 pages · 9780393609264
Abused womenFamilyBiographyTrinidadian AmericansCaribbean area, biographyWomen, biographyNew York Times reviewed






