- Fiction, Women, Jamaican Americans, Fiction, general
Claire finds she must finally make her own choices when her parents, recent immigrants to the U.S. from Jamaica, can not adjust to their new country or to each other.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Michelle Cliff
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 211
- Publisher
- Penguin Books USA, Dutton, Minerva
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780452275690
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