Name: from harvey river,a memoir of my mother and her island
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Author: Goodison, Lorna
ISBN: 9780061337567

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from harvey river,a memoir of my mother and her island

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lorna Goodison

Publisher

Amistad

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.6 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN

0061337560

ISBN13

9780061337567

Synopsis "from harvey river,a memoir of my mother and her island"

When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, he gives his name to what will become his family's home for generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the place she always called home, the place where she was one of the "fabulous Harvey girls," and where the rich local bounty of Lucea yams, pimentos, and mangoes went hand in hand with the Victorian niceties of her parents' house. It is a place she will return to in dreams when her fortunes change, years later, and she and her husband, Marcus Goodison, relocate to "hard life" Kingston and encounter the harsh realities of urban living in close quarters.In Lorna Goodison's luminous memoir of her forebears, we meet a cast of wonderfully drawn characters, including George O'Brian Wilson, the Irish patriarch of the family who marries a Guinea woman after coming to Jamaica in the mid-1800s; Doris's parents, Margaret and David, childhood sweethearts who become the first family of Harvey River; and Margaret and David's eight children.In lush, vivid prose, textured with the cadences of Creole speech, Lorna Goodison weaves together memory and mythology to create a vivid tapestry. She takes us deep into the heart of a complete world to tell a universal story of family and the ties that bind us to the place we call home.

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