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i could see that in marrying a man, my mother had thought very hard not so much about happiness as about her own piece of mind

sometimes there’s no escape but often the effort of trying will do quite nicely for a while !

This is my first novel by Jamaica Kincaid. I opened the book and I immediately knew this will be an emotional ride. The prose struck me just as much as Alice Walker’s did when I first read The color purple