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How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir

By Camille U. Adams
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By Camille U. Adams
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Mapping the fault lines between mother and child (humanity's first and supposedly strongest bond), and with a poet's homeric vision of her native Trinidad, Camille U. Adams weaves the Caribbean island's history of colonial violence with her own family's legacy of abandonment.

For generations, the women of Camille U. Adams' family have left their daughters. Some follow the siren call of rum, the centuries—old vice which alighted on Trinidad's shores from European ships. Others flee the behind...

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Social SciencesBiographyAfrican AmericansAfrican American Biography & MemoirPeoples & Cultures - BiographyAfrican American BiographyAfrican American General Biography