[PDF] Jamaica Girl eBook

Author : Jon Michael Miller
Publisher : English in Florida
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category :
ISBN : 1413718124

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Rosalind Juliet Mitchell could become one of the great heroines of modern fiction. She is a Jamaican Lolita and a Caribbean cross between Huck Finn and Liza Doolittle. Dirt poor, hungry, bright-eyed and determined, she clings to her one distant hope a Glenn Webber, an aging, uncertain American tourist. He is Humbert with a conscience, forced comically to confront one moral dilemma after another in an effort to comprehend a culture very different from his own. In this hilarious, erotic, heart-rending romp, we move from a bloody jungle killing to a Kingston beauty pageant, meeting on the way a supporting cast that includes a voodoo witch, a hip-hop dancer, an ebullient taxi driver, a sly Rasta-man, a ruthless voyeur, a stoned plant lady, a corrupt detective, a quirky pageant coach, some wild Jamaican strippers and an assortment of mountain peasants. Have you been to Jamaica, mon? Climbed the falls? Now immerse yourself in this tropical odyssey of struggle and triumph, and meet one of the most memorable heroines in modern imaginative literature.

Author : Juanita Havill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395393765

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A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.

Author : Yvonne Shorter Brown
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1771125489

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Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The author’s quest to understand the absence of her mother and her mother’s people from her life is at the heart of the narrative. The author struggles through life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father’s brutal family. In this updated edition she adds a coda, “finding mother”, constructed from archives, genealogy, letters, and journals. Initially published in 2010, this second edition includes expanded text and a foreword by Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember.

Author : Juanita Havill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395779392

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Jamaica hates wearing hand-me-down boots when her friend Brianna has pink fuzzy ones.

Author : Elizabeth Hylton
Publisher : College Boy Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Liz is a flirty and fun young lady in her mid-thirties. Like most women her age, she's bored with her daily routine. Residing in Corpus Christi, TX, Liz feels bored and out of place. Wanting to celebrate her new accomplishments - losing 100 pounds and completing her Master's degree - she decides to plan a trip. And not just any trip to anywhere, but an all girls trip to the beautiful island of Montego Bay, Jamaica. She contacts her sister, Melissa, who lives in Houston, and her best friend, Kelly, who lives in St. Louis, to join her on this fun-filled adventure. Her cycle of bad relationships has led her to grow tired of the dating scene. However, she's still single, with two children and still believes in love. She wonders like most women, "Is she beyond her prime or can she too 'Get Her Groove Back?'" Ride along with Liz on this journey of self-discovery, acceptance, and love with her family and friends in Jamaica Trip; Book One of the Memoirs of Jamaica Series. ### Jamaica Trip, a book for the hopeless romantic, is a memoir about a young lady who has lost hope in love and herself. After meeting different modern day sages, and even singing in the Superdome with Beyonce, she was able to rekindle her desire for life, love and the pursuit of her personal path to happiness, once again. Following a long 2-year period of self-reflection and inner searching, her only question that remained was, "Where is my love?" Maybe it was too late for Liz to create the life she absolutely desires. As she gets ready to take a vacation, the roller coaster of what's in store, is just getting started.

Author : Nikko M Fungchung
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2016-11-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780998149738

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Anya's World Adventures Book Series, takes young readers on a tour of the world through the eyes of a child. With the help of Anya's magic globe, readers will experience the joys of travel and adventure. The first stop in the series is Jamaica. Join Anya as she learns about the food, language and culture of this beautiful country.

Author : Marlene Ricketts
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781413741292

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From the simple paradise of mango and guava trees in the tropics of Jamaica to the fast-moving, unfamiliar streets of New York, Sandra's life took a change that she couldn't control. When she and her brother Kevin were swept away from their grandmother's rural home by a father that had been absent for as many years as they could remember, it was supposed to be for the best. However, an abusive stepmother and a stepbrother with hands that wandered made Sandra's life a living hell. Forced to find ways to dodge the bullets of the life she'd come to know, Sandra constantly struggled with the crushing blows of a shattered self-esteem, and a father who hid so far in a bottle of booze that he was indifferent to his own flesh and blood. Deep in the pit of depression, Sandra sought the ultimate out, suicide. In the hospital, Sandra learned that the prison she'd desperately tried to break free of followed her. Her own guilt of her circumstances and the resulting self-loathing had become worse than any bars could have ever been. Prescribing more than medicine, Dr. Russo gave Sandra a healthy dose of something she hadn't had since those long ago days in Jamaica, care and concern. With new scenery, and a determination to take control of her life, Sandra learned that living with others required trust and compromise. She also learned that the people who cared the most were the ones who were patient enough to allow her to find herself.

Author : Alexia Arthurs
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524799211

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“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith An O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl Pick Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In “Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands,” an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In “Mash Up Love,” a twin’s chance sighting of his estranged brother—the prodigal son of the family—stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In “Bad Behavior,” a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In “Mermaid River,” a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In “The Ghost of Jia Yi,” a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in “Shirley from a Small Place,” a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother’s big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital. Alexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction’s most dynamic and essential authors. Praise for How to Love a Jamaican “A sublime short-story collection from newcomer Alexia Arthurs that explores, through various characters, a specific strand of the immigrant experience.”—Entertainment Weekly “With its singular mix of psychological precision and sun-kissed lyricism, this dazzling debut marks the emergence of a knockout new voice.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Gorgeous, tender, heartbreaking stories . . . Arthurs is a witty, perceptive, and generous writer, and this is a book that will last.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties “Vivid and exciting . . . every story rings beautifully true.”—Marie Claire

Author : Diana Budhai
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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A young girl comes to the realization that although she has been abandoned and starving, she has been taught the values required to live a life of decency and goodness. She has an epiphany that set her on the road to strength and independence in Under the Jimbilin Tree. Without resources, her goals seem unattainable yet she persists and celebrates each small step that gets her closer to "that great America." Propelled by her pact with God, made while eating jimbilins to quench her hunger, she never gives up. This amazing true story brilliantly illustrates that anguish and deprivation are not always a deterrent to success. Instead, such hardships can be excellent motivators in life's long road.

Author : Terion Griffiths
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2021-03-10
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ISBN :

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Sometimes I feel like my childhood memories are slowly drifting away, and with miles and years separating my existence, I struggle to hold on. Gone are the days when children played outside, the community raised the children, and simplicity was the order of the day. As my two daughters grow, it becomes even more important for me to ensure they have a piece of my home. With colorful memories, they will be able to share in my past and understand my hope. They will be able to travel with me back in time and revisit a time when precious memories were made. I want my story to be told from generation to generation, to tattoo a smile like mine on every child's face. Hence, I write this memoir entitled A World Yesterday: The Life of a Jamaican Country Girl to bring light and embodiment to my childhood filled with marvelous experiences. With this book, I will keep my memories alive and stay connected to the Jamaican culture.