Autobiography of My Mother and civil unrest is growing

and civil unrest is growing by the day

and as the women of his past taunt his memory

of being buffeted by the island's harsh winds and torrential rains

and surveillance has sat in tension with long-haul movement work and cross-movement organizing

you need to ditch the old Status Quo rules

Autobiography of My Mother and civil unrest is growingAutobiography of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux May 07 2013 EAN: 9780374531874 ISBN: 0374531870 Synopsis: From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming of age Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution, evoked in startling and magical poetry.