The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel (FSG Classics) Binding:Paperback Thurman's poetic text deftly explores

Thurman's poetic text deftly explores the day-to-day life of a young Black child and her family--their joys and their fears--with a rhythm and musicality perfect for reading aloud

This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project

and together they make plans to reinvent Strong Knits for a new generation

Chang-rae Lee

It is a relationship destined to explode

The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel (FSG Classics) Binding:Paperback Thurman's poetic text deftly exploresFrom 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