The author shares the story of her mother's family, tracing their origins in a privileged parish community historically marked as a place through which runaway slaves escaped and describing her mother's life in urban Jamaica.
- ISBN10 0061337560
- ISBN13 9780061337567
- Publish Date 3 March 2009 (first published 6 February 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 304
- Language English