Autobiographie de ma mère

Jamaica Kincaid Dominique Peters Carme Geronès First published 1999

About this book

The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of slavery. By the author of Lucy.

Subjects

belletristische darstellung
caribbean area, fiction
carpenters
dominican republic, fiction
dwellings
ficción
fiction
fiction, biographical
fiction, fantasy, general
fiction, general
friendship
houses
loss (psychology)
maintenance and repair
mujeres
neighborhood
neighborhoods
new york times reviewed
psychological fiction
romance
storms
weibliche schwarze
widowers
women