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The Autobiography of My Mother

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07 July 2022
208 pages
9781529076752
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Fierce, incantory. . . lyrical. . . powerful and disturbingMichiko Kakutani, New York Times
Kincaid, always an elegant stylist, makes this story of a simple woman extraordinary...filling her prose with rich, poetic detail. . . An unforgettable account of singular survivalSan Francisco Chronicle Book Review
A book that comes both to haunt and to dazzle us . . . [Kincaid] writes like an angel: with enviable lucidity and precision and a lyric touch that frequently aspires to the condition of poetryBoston Sunday Globe
What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex.Ali Smith