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Title: The Autobiography of My Mother
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Narrator: Robin Miles
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-13-16
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal comes an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming of age.
Powerful, disturbing, and stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. 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.
Jamaica Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she can hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack La Batte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's intensely physical world is redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road. It seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, and her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is "the black room of the world" that is Xuela's barrenness and life without a mother.
The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution, evoked in startling and magical poetry.
Members Reviews:
A beautifully written and deeply touching book
In rich and poetic prose, Kincaid powerfully describes the life story of Xuela, a woman with an alienated and barren soul, who cannot love and does not want to be loved, yet surprisingly is very sensual. Kincaid points to the role of motherly love, and the bond to the homeland in forming the individual personality and consequently one's flow of life.
My quote: "A human being, a person, many people, a people, will say their surroundings, form their consciousness, their very being; they will get up every morning and look at green hills, white cliffs, silver mountains, fields of golden grain, rivers of blue-glinting water, and in the beauty of this- and it is beautiful, they cannot help but find it beautiful - they invisibly, magically, conquer the distance that is between them and the beauty they are beholding, and they feel themselves become one with it, they draw strength from it, they are inspired by it to sing songs, to compose verse ..."
A highly recommended read.
My classmates and I love this
I bought this book for my English class and this is most cultural,life lesson book. My classmates and I love this book
This was real work
This book got me curious because of the reviews. I now see what a lot of people meant. The story is a very (and I mean very) dark tale. There are some pivotal insights, but my feeling is that it is one long brooding about the way her birth circumstance colored her whole being and relations with the world. Written in a very complex fashion that demands you stay with the story and not get lost in the side thoughts.
Too much self absorption
The author's intense focus on the main character's inner thoughts and feelings limits the reader's scope and prevents a broad view of the social environment of the book's setting.
