Autobiographie de ma mère

By Carme Geronès, Jamaica Kincaid, Dominique Peters

Subjects: Carpenters, Houses, Women, fiction, Dwellings, Fiction, general, Psychological fiction, Mujeres, Storms, Weibliche Schwarze, Fiction, fantasy, general, Dominican republic, fiction, romance, Caribbean area, fiction, Widowers, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Neighborhood, Belletristische Darstellung, Fiction, biographical, Loss (Psychology), Maintenance and repair, Neighborhoods, Ficción, Friendship

Description: 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.