The Autobiography of My Mother
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0374107319 / Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, January 1996
A seventy-year-old West Indian woman looks back over the course of her life and examines the relationships that have given meaning to her existence
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Jamaica Kincaid's new novel is the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, was delivered to his laundress as an infant, bundled up like his clothes.The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry.
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