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The Autobiography of My Mother

Paperback • 2013 • English

The Autobiography of My Mother

By Jamaica Kincaid

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From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution, evoked in startling and magical poetry. Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Ca...Show more

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ISBN

9780374531874

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

The Autobiography of My Mother

Format

Paperback

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