The Star Side of Bird Hill

Lovely prose. Started strangely as if in the middle of a conversation but it quickly flowed into a gorgeous coming of age novel about two young girls sent to Barbados to live with their grandmother. What Jackson does especially well is capture the small island village where Dionne and Phaedra find t......more

I wish I could think of a different way to say coming of age . The phrase is used so often to describe how children come to the verge of adulthood and they are usually taken there by some difficult events , but there's no getting around it . That's exactly what this story is about and how these char......more

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | “Loving a country besides the one you lived in was a recipe for disaster.” The Star Side of Bird Hill is an enjoyable coming-of-age novel about two sisters, Dionne and Phaedra, who are sent off by their mother to spend their summer with their grandmother, Hyacinth, in......more

The Star Side of Bird Hill is a lovely well written book with a good story -- although readers should know it has a sad undercurrent with a very sad event right in the middle. It's the 1980s, and Dionne and Phaedra are sent from Brooklyn to live with their grandmother in Barbados because their mothe......more

I can't remember the last time a book made me laugh AND cry. Loved, loved, LOVED the characters in this book.......more