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Jamaica Kincaid
1996
Novel
Fiction
The Autobiography of My Mother is told from a first-person perspective. The narrator Xuela Richardson is a 70-year-old woman looking back on the hardships and lessons she learned during her life.
The Autobiography of My Mother is written in the past tense.
The Autobiography of My Mother is the fictional autobiography of Xuela Richardson. Her mother who is of the same name died in childbirth. Xuela believes that she is telling her story as a way to tell the story of the life her mother never experienced.
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