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From Harvey River : a memoir of my mother and her island by Goodison, Lorna is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>"Throughout her life my mother [Doris] lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up."</p><p>In the tradition of Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family and Carlos Eire's Waiting for Snow in Havana comes Lorna Goodison's luminous memoir of her forebears—From Harvey River. When Doris' English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the

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Author
Goodison, Lorna
Publisher
New York: Amistad
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780061337550
Category
biography
Subjects
Memoir, Literary Fiction, Family & Relationships
Rating
3.79 / 5 (138 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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