Elena Knows Binding:Paperback and strips leaves in the

and strips leaves in the sugarcane plantation where she is enslaved

At home they are just sisters

" (Shelf Awareness

author of American Born Chinese and Dragon Hoops

Elena Knows Binding:Paperback and strips leaves in theSHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022 After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and