The River's Song

By Jacqueline Bishop

This engaging coming-of-age novel looks back over the idyllic Jamaican girlhood and the both alienating and transforming experience of winning a scholarship to the most prestigious girls' boarding school on the island. Atypical of Caribbean literature because of its description of a young girl's sexual awakening, the novel offers poetic descriptions of rural and urban Jamaica and delightful characterizations of warm and lively women, including the narrator's mother, grandmother, and neighbors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845230388
• ISBN13: 9781845230388
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"