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Every title is selected for its contribution to the conversation about who we are and where we come from.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-house-for-miss-pauline-diana-mccaulay","title":"A House for Miss Pauline | Diana McCaulay","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-supplemental__details__group\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-supplemental__details__group\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003ca data-label=\"9781643757223\" data-action=\"Click Publisher\" data-category=\"ecommerce\" data-type=\"link-event\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/imprint\/little-brown-and-company\/algonquin-books\/\"\u003eAlgonquin Books\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-supplemental__details__group\"\u003eISBN-139781643757223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"3456\" data-start=\"3222\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A House for Miss Pauline is a masterful, multi-generational story about silence, memory, and justice in the Caribbean. With emotional precision and social power, Diana McCaulay builds a narrative that is both intimate and universal.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                                             - CariCon Prize \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-supplemental__details__group\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-supplemental__details__group\"\u003e----\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ninety-nine, knows she will not make it to her one-hundredth birthday. She has lived a modest life in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village, educating herself with stolen books, raising her two children, surviving by becoming a successful ganja farmers in the area, and experiencing both deep passion and true loss with her beloved baby father, Clive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBehind this seemingly benign façade, however, Miss Pauline has buried many secrets. To avenge her enslaved ancestors, she has built her house, stone by stone, from the ruins of a plantation on her land. And she knows more than she has told about the disappearance of Turner Buchanan—a white American man who came to Mason Hall decades ago to claim her land. 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