num_pages: 228
description: Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, grows up in a harsh, loveless world after her mother dies in childbirth. Xuela’s narrative provides a rich, vivid exploration of the Caribbean and the pervasive influence of colonialism. The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry.
language: English
title: The Autobiography of My Mother
titlecomplete: The Autobiography of My Mother
genres: Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Post Colonial, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, Literature, Adult, Feminism, Fiction
ratings_count: 4798
places: Antigua
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Plume/Penguin