“It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.”
Work
The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of slavery. By the author of Lucy.
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Jamaica Kincaid
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“It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.”
“I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.”
“No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.”