The Twenty Divas of Coconut Island

How Could You Be Gone So Soon?

von Jerry Yonga

342 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

At 3:14 in the morning, a message arrives from Africa. Another Diva is gone.They were the girls everybody knew.There were twenty of them. They walked up the path from the river on Saturday afternoons with buckets on their heads, while the boys of Coconut Island pretended not to watch. Their mothers had plans. Their fathers had rules. The church had commandments. The Sunday beer house had opinions. And the girls had ideas of their own.That was where the trouble began.Fifty years later, an old Coconut Island boy the girls once called "Dictionary" sits in his California kitchen staring at a funeral photograph. He cannot see the old woman in it. He sees a girl of sixteen by the river. So he sets out to answer the question everyone keeps asking on the group chat: How could you be gone so soon?There is Helen, the girl everybody noticed, who only wanted someone to notice what she sewed. Grace passed ten O-Levels and was told that every paper was one less husband. Beatrice paid for everything and was judged for all of it. Julie's puff-puff stall was really a business plan. Eka refused a chief's son because she wanted to be the judge. Comfort, a mother at fifteen, went back to hold the chalk. And Spora walked through every door until nobody knew where she was.Some married doctors' sons. Most did not. Some crossed the Atlantic. Some never left the coconut boulevard. Some are gone. Some are very much alive, and they have things to say about how this story gets told.Funny, tender and unforgettable, The Twenty Divas of Coconut Island is a novel about girlhood, gossip, faith, football, mothers and daughters, and the distance between the girl and the grave.Book Five of The Coconut Island Series. It can be read on its own.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176876826
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published