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    <body><![CDATA[I almost gave this book all five stars cause I truly loved this book. After living in the West Indies for three years...this book really resonated with me and what I found to be true of the local women in the caribbean. This character is strong, fierce, and to be perfectly honest the only reason I d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47394920">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The narrator's voice is excellent in this story. The plot is painful, searing, but also beautiful. This book shows the dynamics between mothers and daughters perfectly! Annie John, Lucy, and Autobiography of My Mother all read as if they are non fiction/biography rather than fiction.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very odd book that is fiction not an autobiography nor is about the main character's mother.  It was actually disturbing, none of the characters were likeable and I don't recommend this one at all.  The kind of book you keep thinking will change in tone and become enjoyable but doesn't.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;He never carried money in his pocket, he would never surround himself with actual money, but this was not unlike training himself not to glance at his own reflection in public: to be seen with money was to reveal how much he loved it, and he loved a farthing more than he loved a penny and he l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9786779">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terrific book, both for the personal story that<br/>unfolds and for the unforced connections and<br/>parallels between that story and the history of<br/>Euro-centric colonialism and paternalism in general.<br/>In one extended riff on the words of a common hymn,<br/>for instance, there is a with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55025064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having just visited Dominica and the last Carib reserve, I found this novel about a Carib, Scot, African woman to be fascinating.  Since it takes place on Dominica, my favorite Caribbean island thus far, it added to its allure.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book caught me eye because of the picture on the front.  It is the national costume of Dominica.  She lloks so normal, informal in these clothes. She looks like &quot;home.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Powerful, careful prose that yet doesn't betray its narrator as she recounts her life informed at every decision and in every relationship by colonialism.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this whole book aloud.  I loved the dialect in which it is written.  It reminded me some of Toni Morrison.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful and sad.  Of all the postcolonial/postmodern/etc. books I've read, this probably succeeds the most at <em>being a novel</em>.  Not only is the prose exquisite (both gorgeous and so fluid that I had to force myself to slow down to savor it), but the politics are overt without ever interrupting the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45499707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Caribbean culture shown to us.  One of my favorite authors.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is indeed one of my favorites by Jamaica Kincaid. Breathtaking. ]]></body>
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