Feb 4, 2021
Our guest today is Cherie Jones, whose Barbados-set novel How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is hot off the press and has won praise from all quarters. Cosmopolitan calls it “visceral and haunting” and Bernadine Evaristo says that it’s “a hard-hitting and unflinching novel from a bold new writer who tackles head-on the brutal extremes of patriarchal abuse”.
Cherie and I talked about what it’s like to study writing far from home, where to start if you want to read short stories, what it’s like to live in Barbados, and more.
Books Mentioned on the Podcast:
(All available in the UK here and most available in the US here)
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, by Cherie Jones UK / US / Worldwide
In Praise of Love and Children, by Beryl Gilroy UK / US / Worldwide
The Girl with the Louding Voice, by Abi Daré UK / US / Worldwide
Augustown, by Kai Miller UK / US / Worldwide
The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead UK / US / Worldwide
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, by Leanne Shapton UK / US / Worldwide
Ms Hempel Chronicles, by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum UK / US / Worldwide
Summer Lightning & Other Stories, by Olive Senior UK / US / Worldwide
Miguel Street, by V. S. Naipaul UK / US / Worldwide
People Like Her, by Ellery Lloyd UK / US / Worldwide
Rescue Me, by Sarra Manning UK / US / Worldwide
The Lonely Fajita, by Abigail Mann UK / US / Worldwide
Alexa, What Is There to Know About Love, by Brian Bilston UK / US / Worldwide (signed!)
Little Scratch, by Rebecca Watson UK / US / Worldwide
The Humiliations of Welton Blake, by Alex Wheatle UK / US / Worldwide
Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe UK / US / Worldwide
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