The Autobiography of My Mother.
Mothers, daughters and colonialism continue to fuel this novelist's imagination as in 1996s The Autobiography of My Mother. Born Elaine Potter Richardson in St. John's, Antigua she left the West Indies when she was 16, and after several domestic jobs in and around New York City, she became a staff writer on the New Yorker. Her first short-story collection, At the Bottom of the River, with its rich echoes of everyday life, imaginative metaphors, and often incantatory style, won her widespread recognition, especially for the story "Girl." In Lucy she describes her heroine in an urban American setting. FTP identify this author most well known for a series of connected short stories centering on the coming of age of an island girl, called Annie John.
Mothers, daughters and colonialism continue to fuel this novelist's imagination as in 1996s
Jamaica Kincaid