From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman\'s courageous coming-of-age Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid\'s novel is the deeply charged story of a woman\'s life on the island of Dominica.
Kincaid takes us from Xuela\'s childhood in a home.
Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib Mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her Mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own.
From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman\'s courageous coming-of-age Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid\'s novel is the deeply charged story of a woman\'s life on the island of Dominica