Bruised Hibiscus - by Elizabeth Nunez (Paperback)

About the Book

This darkly lush story (based on a real-life crime) is rife with symbolism, ominous powers and tension between races and classes. The mutilated body of a white female doctor washes ashore in Trinidad. Two local women hear of the murder, and decide to make a pilgrimage to a neighboring town to pray to Our Lady of Fatima.

Book Synopsis

The year is 1954. A white woman s body, stuffed in a coconut bag, has washed ashore in Otatiti, Trinidad, and the British colony is rife with rumors. In two homes, one in a distant shantytown, the other on the outskirts of a former sugar cane estate, two women hear the news and their blood runs cold. Rosa, the white daughter of a landowner, and Zuela, the adopted daughter of a Chinese shop owner used to play together as girls and witnessed something terrible behind a hibiscus bush many years ago."

About the Author

Elizabeth Nunez, PhD, is the bestselling author of 10 novels, including Bruised Hibiscus, winner of an American Book Award. Nunez's book Boundaries was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. She immigrated to the United States from Trinidad and is a distinguished professor at Hunter College, the City University of New York.