Super Short Summary

In the summer of 1989, sisters Dionne and Phaedra are sent from Brooklyn to live with their grandmother Hyacinth in Barbados after their mother, Avril, can no longer care for them. The girls navigate their new lives in the slower-paced, religious community of Bird Hill, where Dionne resists the constraints while Phaedra embraces the change and her grandmother's practice of obeah. The narrative explores themes of family, identity, and adjustment against a backdrop of cultural and emotional transformation. The story contains references to mental health crises and death by suicide.