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What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones
What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You: 'An outstanding debut' Cherie Jones
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In "What a Mother's Love Don't Teach You," Dinah gives away her baby son to a rich couple before they leave Jamaica. Eighteen years later, a young man from the US comes to Kingston, and Dinah believes he is her son. The story explores themes of belonging, identity, and inheritance, with a chorus of voices evoking Jamaica's ghetto, dance halls, criminal underworld, and corrupt politics. It is a powerful and gut-wrenching tale of a mother's unshakeable love for her son.
Format: Hardback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
An outstanding debut
CHERIE JONES, author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House
Vivid and authentic
LEONE ROSS, author of This One Sky Day
Cacophonic, alive, and heartbreaking
KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE, author of The Mercies
A gripping page-turner
CAMILLE HERNÁNDEZ-RAMDWAR, author of Suite as Sugar and Other Stories
As featured on BBC's Cultural Frontline podcast
At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him.
Eighteen years later, a young man comes from the US to Kingston. From the moment she sees him, Dinah never doubts - this is her son.
What happens next will make everyone question what they know and where they belong.
A powerful story of belonging, identity, and inheritance, What a Mother's Love Don't Teach You brings together a blazing chorus of voices to evoke Jamaica's ghetto, dance halls, criminal underworld, and corrupt politics, at the beating heart of which is a mother's unshakeable love for her son.
Delicate but gut-wrenching
JOSIE D ARBY, broadcaster
Irresistible
CURDELLA FORBES, author of A Tall History of Sugar
Arresting
LISA ALLEN-AGOSTINI, a uthor of The Bread the Devil Knead
Wonderful
JACOB ROSS, author of The Bone Readers
Exciting
YEWANDE OMOTOSO, author of An Unusual Grief
Thrilling
CELESTE MOHAMMED, author of Pleasantview
Weight: 664g
Dimension: 243 x 164 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349015514
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