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Also by Jamaica Kincaid:

Mr. Potter, May 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
See Now Then, February 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
At The Bottom Of The River, October 2000
Paperback / e-Book
The Autobiography Of My Mother, January 1996
Hardcover / e-Book

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER
By: Jamaica Kincaid

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
January 1996
On Sale: January 1, 1996
228 pages
ISBN: 0374107319
EAN: 9780374107314
Kindle: B009WVJSJW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life

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.

Told by a 70-year-old West Indian woman, as she looks back on her life, the newest novel from the author of Annie John and Lucy touches on the themes of sex, human relations, and the interplay of power and powerlessness.

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All Things Considered - March 3, 2013