Dancing Nude in the Moonlight

by Joanne C. Hillhouse

Selena's ex-husband has left her in a strange land with a baby and two younger sisters to care for. It's hard for Spanish-speaking immigrants to get work, and Selena earns little from the crochet dolls and doilies she makes to sell. The middle sister, Celia, works in a hotel at a job she hates, but it pays the rent and puts food on the table. Pamela is still at school. The three came from the Dominican Republic in the hope of a better living in Antigua. But Antiguans are hostile to the immigrant community in their midst, seeing the newcomers as intruders come to steal away their jobs and their men folk. Only Pamela settles easily into the new life.

Genres: Fiction

426 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2014

About the author

Antiguan and Barbudan Joanne C. Hillhouse is the author of Musical Youth, 2nd placed for the inaugural Burt Award for teen/young adult Caribbean fiction and named one of Kirkus Reviews top 100 indie books of 2020, children's picture books With Grace, a Caribbean faerie tale, Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure, The Jungle Outside, and To be a Cheetah, a novel Oh Gad!, and novellas The Boy from Willow Bend and Dancing Nude in the Moonlight - the latter also reissued as a 10th anniversary edition with extras. For more, visit http://jhohadli.wordpress.com

Reviews

[Mary Isaac · Rating 3 out of 5]

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