A review by alexture
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

3.75

A haunting, terrible tale.

Lala has a husband. He's not a good man. In fact, he killed a man, whose wife had a husband and doesn't anymore.

Lala has a child, for a week. Then she doesn't, and her husband blames her and she knows he'll kill her if she doesn't leave.

Lala doesn't leave.

There are no good characters in this novel, least of all the cop who only follows his prejudiced instincts and his horny thoughts - in another world, this could have been a crime novel with a great detective story. It's not, it's really not.

Awful and brilliant.