Sunday's Child tells of the harrowing systematic abuse of a little girl by her grandmother, while giving the listener a glimpse of the political and cultural climate of 1980s Guyana.
In a desperate economic crisis, Guyana is forced to resort to food and energy rationing. Acclaimed author Anne Lyken-Garner's tale picks up on the humorous aspects that the young girl experiences while forced to spend hours in food lines, simultaneously unfolding the sadness and desperation that is her everyday life.
A soldier in Jonestown, where more than 900 people committed mass suicide, the young girl's uncle tells her of the dead bodies he's seen - but she doesn't mention the one that she herself has witnessed. When she loses the one person in her life that cares for her - and tries to save her - she knows in her heart that her life is about to end....
©2011 Anne Lyken-Garner (P)2012 Pulse, LLC