""Bita Plant is adopted and sent to England from Jamaica by white missionary benefactors and returns to her home village of Banana Bottom seven years later a beautiful, cultured young lady. Despite the evangelical guidance of her foster parents and friendship with a white squire, Bita is increasingly drawn to the vitality of her more natural culture with its festivals, superstitions, revival meetings, and passionate courtships."--Back cover."
"A Jamaican girl returns to her island home after her English education."@en
"Seven years after her adoption, Bita Plant returns to Jamaica and her home village of Banana Bottom only to have trouble readjusting to a civilization that she is extremely drawn to."@en