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A house for Miss Pauline / Diana McCaulay.
Van Pelt - New Book Display PR9265.9.M18 H68 2025
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCaulay, Diana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Grandmothers--Jamaica--Fiction.
- Grandmothers.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Jamaica--Fiction.
- Jamaica.
- Genre:
- Magical realism.
- Romance fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2025.
- Summary:
- When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ninety-nine, knows she will not make it to her one-hundredth birthday. She has lived a modest life in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village, educating herself with stolen books, raising her two children, surviving by becoming a successful ganja farmer, and experiencing both deep passion and true loss with her beloved baby father, Clive.Behind this seemingly benign façade, however, Miss Pauline has buried many secrets. To avenge her enslaved ancestors, she has built her house, stone by stone, from the ruins of a plantation on her land. And she knows more than she has told about the disappearance of Turner Buchanan--a white American man who came to Mason Hall decades ago to claim her land as his and his children's. The whispering stones, Miss Pauline realizes, are telling her that she must make peace with the past before she dies. With help from her American granddaughter, Justine, and Lamont, a teenager she enlists to drive her around the island, she sets off to find the people she has wronged. But as the people and stories of her past come to invade her present, she discovers that there are shocking secrets even she could not have anticipated.
- Notes:
- "A tender and urgent story about who owns the land on which our identities are forged, starring an unforgettably fierce ninety-nine-year-old heroine"-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McCaulay, Diana, House for Miss Pauline.
- ISBN:
- 9781643757223
- 1643757229
- OCLC:
- 1437984997
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