Fingerprints of Previous Owners

A Starred Review from Kirkus

One of the Chicago Review of Books Best Books to Survive Trump

At a Caribbean resort built atop a former slave plantation, Myrna works as a maid by day; by night she trespasses on the resort's overgrown inland property, secretly excavating the plantation ruins the locals refuse to acknowledge. Myrna's mother has stopped speaking and her friends are focused on surviving the present, but Myrna is drawn to Cruffey Island's violent past. With the arrival of Mrs. Manion, a wealthy African-American, also comes new information about the history of the slave-owner's estate and tensions finally erupt between the resort and the local island community. Suffused with the sun-drenched beauty of the Caribbean, Fingerprints of Previous Owners is a powerful novel of hope and recovery in the wake of devastating trauma. In her soulful and timely debut, Entel explores what it means to colonize and be colonized, to trespass and be trespassed upon, to be wounded and to heal.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Unnamed Press
Published: 06/13/2017
ISBN: 9781944700232
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2017 pg. 9
Booklist 05/01/2017 pg. 56
Library Journal 06/15/2017