The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of slavery. By the author of Lucy.
Genres
- Fiction
- Women
- Weibliche Schwarze
- Belletristische Darstellung
- Widowers
- Neighborhood
- Neighborhoods
- Storms
- Houses
- Loss (Psychology)
- Maintenance and repair
- Carpenters
- Psychological fiction
- Friendship
- Dwellings
- Fiction, biographical
- Caribbean area, fiction
- Ficción
- Mujeres
- Dominican republic, fiction
- Fiction, fantasy, general
- New York Times reviewed
- Fiction, general
- romance
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