<div>Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who’s forced to fend for herself when she’s banished from the isolated fishing village where she’s lived all her life.<br><br><b>Colin Channer</b>’s major works of fiction include the novel <i>Waiting in Vain</i> and the story collection <i>Passing Through,</i> which Junot Díaz described as &#147;a splendid collection by one of the Caribbean Diaspora’s finest writers.” He also edited <i>Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop</i> (Akashic Books, 2006). Channer is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of the BA creative writing program at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York.<br></div> Read Less