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“This is a jewel of a book. A dazzling coming-of-age novella, now an Essence Magazine best seller, by Jamaica’s top-selling writer. Channer’s language is dancing and juicy, his vision penetrating, and his hero is magnificent.” ―Booklist, Starred Review “Channer is a gifted storyteller.” ―Washington Post The Girl with the Golden Shoes is a dazzling and picaresque novella of equal parts Gabriel García Márquez, Mark Twain, and Bob Marley. Set in 1942, on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, it tells the story of Estrella Thompson, a 14-year-old who’s forced to fend for herself when she’s banished from the isolated fishing village where she’s lived all her life.