Elizabeth Walcott Hackshaw: 2 books

This book is distinctive by its trilingual nature; the short stories by Caribbean women writers appear in English, French, Spanish.

Her daughter Ruthie's easy ascent through school and university has been Mrs. B's pride and joy for some time. But as the novel begins, she and her husband Charles are on their way to the airport to collect Ruthie, who has disgraced herself with a married man and a suicide attempt, and is, as they...