The River's Song by Jacqueline Bishop

This engaging coming-of-age novel looks back over the idyllic Jamaican girlhood and the both alienating and transforming experience of winning a scholarship to the most prestigious girls' boarding school on the island.
 
Atypical of Caribbean literature because of its description of a young girl's sexual awakening, the novel offers poetic descriptions of rural and urban Jamaica and delightful characterizations of warm and lively women, including the narrator's mother, grandmother, and neighbors.
 
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 183 
Weight: 259 g 
Dimensions: 206 x 136 x 14 mm