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From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island

by Lorna Goodison - £8.99  Atlantic Books (2010)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781843549963 | ISBN 10: 1843549964

'Throughout her life my mother lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up.'
 
In lush, vivid prose textured with the cadences of Creole, Harvey River tells a universal story of mothers and daughters; of family and the ties that bind us to the place we call home.
 
When Lorna's great-grandfather, William Harvey, discovered a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of escaping slaves, he gives his name to what became his family’s home for generations. For Lorna’s mother, Doris, Jamaica’s Harvey River was the place she always called home, where she was one of the 'fabulous Harvey girls' and the rich local bounty of yams, pimentos and mangoes went hand in hand with the Victorian niceties and comforts of her parents' house. Years later, when her fortunes changed, it was a place she returned to in her dreams... She and her husband relocated to 'hard life' Kingston and encountered the harsh realities of urban living at close quarters as they raised their family of nine children.
 
Peopled with a cast of wonderfully drawn characters, Lorna Goodison’s memoir weaves together memory and island lore to create a vivid and universally appealing tapestry.

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