The Girl With the Golden Shoes

Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who’s forced to fend for herself when she’s banished from the isolated fishing village where she’s lived all her life.

**Colin Channer**’s major works of fiction include the novel *Waiting in Vain* and the story collection *Passing Through,* which Junot Díaz described as “a splendid collection by one of the Caribbean Diaspora’s finest writers.” He also edited *Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop* (Akashic Books, 2006). Channer is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of the BA creative writing program at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York.