The Autobiography Of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid by Jamaica Kincaid 9781529076752, 1529076757, B0B689HZX4 instant download after payment.

From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age."My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity," writes Jamaica Kincaid in this disturbing, compelling novel set on the island of Dominica.

“Fierce, incantatory... lyrical... powerful and disturbing.”   -  Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arrival include that of her distant father, who sends her away to another household at the earliest opportunity; of her passion for the stevedore Roland, who fulfils her sexually but not intellectually; and of her husband, who provides her with status and a wealthy lifestyle but whom she is incapable of loving.

“Kincaid, always an elegant stylist, makes this story of a simple woman extraordinary... filling her prose with rich, poetic detail... An unforgettable account of singular survival.”   -   San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

“A book that comes both to haunt and to dazzle us... [Kincaid] writes like an angel: with enviable lucidity and precision and a lyric touch that frequently aspires to the condition of poetry.”   -  Boston Sunday Globe

Poetic and disturbing, The Autobiography Of My Mother is one of Jamaica Kincaid's most powerful statements of Afro-Caribbean women's struggle for identity and independence, against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism.