The House of Plain Truth: A Novel

A lush, evocative story about a fractured Jamaican family and a daughter determined to reclaim her home.

When Pearline receives grave news about her ailing father, she abruptly leaves Brooklyn for her childhood home in Jamaica. But Pearline isn’t prepared for a tense reunion with her sisters or for her father’s startling deathbed wish that she repair their long—broken family legacy and find the sister and two brothers no one has seen in more than 50 years.

Moving through time and place, from ...