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

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

Lorna Goodison

304 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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"Throughout her life my mother [Doris] 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 the tradition of Michael Ondaatje's R...

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emotional 75%
reflective 75%
hopeful 50%
informative 50%
inspiring 50%

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slow 25%

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