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Two sisters, ages ten and sixteen, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live for the summer of 1989 with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. 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