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The Autobiography Of My Mother
Jamaica Kincaid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
January 1996
On Sale: January 1, 1996
228 pages
ISBN: 0374107319
EAN: 9780374107314
Kindle: B009WVJSJW
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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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