Primitive people

Description:

Young Simone flees the chaotic violence of Haiti only to land in a world no less brutal or bizarre--the world of upstate New York's Porter family. Here, dead sheep swing from trees, light bulbs are ceremoniously buried, a fur-clad mother carves terrifying goddesses from pumice, and learning to lie is the principle rite of passage into adulthood.

subjects: Women sculptors,  Au pairs,  Black humor (Literature),  Fiction,  Illegal aliens,  Haitians,  Young women,  Children of the rich,  New york (state), fiction,  Fiction, general,  Illegal immigration,  Noncitizens

Places: United States,  Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)