Primitive people
Francine Prose (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 1992
First edition
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1992