How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir novel Moses and Calvin McKissack

Moses and Calvin McKissack

Lilac and Jasmine

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Loretta Ross was a single mother in Washington who’d had to drop out of Howard University

Six months ago

How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir novel Moses and Calvin McKissackMapping the fault lines between mother and child (humanity's first and supposedly strongest bond), and with a poet's homeric vision of her native Trinidad, Camille U. Adams weaves the Caribbean island's history of colonial violence with her own family's legacy of abandonment. For generations, the women of Camille U. Adams' family have left their daughters. Some follow the siren call of rum, the centuries old vice which alighted on Trinidad's shores