How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House : An Evening with Cherie Jones

Mar
10:00pm
How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House : An Evening with Cherie Jones

By Cafe con Libros
JOIN US ON  THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021 AT 7PM EST FOR AN
EVENING WITH CHERIE JONES IN CONVERSATION WITH
AYESHA GIBSON-GILL TO DISCUSS
HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE !
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A debut novel in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, from a brilliant Caribbean writer, set in Barbados, about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called "paradise."

In Baxter Beach, Barbados, moneyed ex-pats clash with the locals who often end up serving them: braiding their hair, minding their children, and selling them drugs. Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the Baxter 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 by desperation and greed who attempt a crime that will risk their freedom -- and their lives.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Cherie Jones is a writer, mom of four and lawyer from Barbados. She is a past fellowship awardee of the Vermont Studio Centre and a graduate of the MA Writing programme at Sheffield Hallam University where she was awarded the Archie Markham Award and the AM Heath prize. Her short fiction has been published in PANK, Eclectica and The Feminist Wire and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her first short story collection was published in 2004. ‘How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House’ is her first novel.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR:
Ayesha Gibson-Gill of Story Shyft is an arts manager, producer, performer, writer and director for stage, audio and screen.  She graduated with distinction in Theatre Studies from Acadia University in Nova Scotia Canada and a Masters in Arts Management from Greenwich University in the U.K.   Storytelling has been at the centre of all of her varied endeavours: she was a co-anchor (with Dennis Johnson) of the top rated Cockadoodledoo Morning Show on VOB92.9FM in Barbados; adapted and directed Timothy Callendar’s short stories for stage in The It So Happen Suite; performed in multiple professional theatre and film productions in Barbados and Halifax Nova Scotia and crafted, narrated, developed and produced multiple heritage based scripts.  Ayesha was Cultural Development Officer for Literary Arts at the National Cultural Foundation Barbados for 9 years; coordinating national literary competitions and educational programmes along with local and regional stage and multimedia productions and events.  She was instrumental in the development of the distinguished Arts Etc NIFCA Winning Words Anthologies into their current professional format, including e-book, translation to Brazilian Portuguese and multimedia adaptation of excerpts.  In addition to being co-founder of the literary arts media company Story Shyftshe is co-producer of one son.
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