From Harvey River - by Lorna Goodison (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In lush, vivid prose, textured with the cadences of Creole speech, Goodison weaves together memory and mythology to create a vivid tapestry of her ancestors and the places they called home.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, he gives his name to what will become his family's home for generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the place she always called home, the place where she was one of the fabulous Harvey girls, and where the rich local bounty of Lucea yams, pimentos, and mangoes went hand in hand with the Victorian niceties of her parents' house. It is a place she will return to in dreams when her fortunes change, years later, and she and her husband, Marcus Goodison, relocate to hard life Kingston and encounter the harsh realities of urban living in close quarters.</p><p>In Lorna Goodison's luminous memoir of her forebears, we meet a cast of wonderfully drawn characters, including George O'Brian Wilson, the Irish patriarch of the family who marries a Guinea woman after coming to Jamaica in the mid-1800s; Doris's parents, Margaret and David, childhood sweethearts who become the first family of Harvey River; and Margaret and David's eight children.</p><p>In lush, vivid prose, textured with the cadences of Creole speech, Lorna Goodison weaves together memory and mythology to create a vivid tapestry. She takes us deep into the heart of a complete world to tell a universal story of family and the ties that bind us to the place we call home. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Goodison's memoir reaches back over generations to evoke the mythic power of childhood, the magnetic tug of home, and the friction between desire and duty that gives life its unexpected jolts."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em> <strong>(starred review)</strong><br><br>"Being introduced to the cast of 'From Harvey River' is like sitting down at the family dining table. You'll stay for the day then on into the evening as each new character pulls up a chair. You could not be in better company."--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>"[A] loving memoir."--New York Times Book Review Paperback Row<br>
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