num_pages: 99
description: A daughter witnesses the passing of her mother. Through the weaving of many stories, Ford-Smith marks the event, and celebrates the lives of three generations of Jamaican women. She explores the ways in which some of life's experiences are defined by race and privilege, and charts a double death -- that of the mother, and that of the Caribbean colonial legacy.Filled with dramatic prose, lyrical verse, and rich photo images, this collection shimmers with the colors of the Caribbean; lush, vivid imagery and haunting memories. In dramatic monologues and lively verse, everyday people and things take unexpected turns -- telephone wires become things you walk on, and houses are haunted by duppiesMy Mother's Last Dance is a magical voyage from reality to fantasy and back again -- a meditation on grief, memory and hope.
language: English
title: My Mother's Last Dance
titlecomplete: My Mother's Last Dance
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Sister Vision Pr