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When Doris Harvey''s English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, he gives his name to what will become his family''s home for generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the place she always called home, the place where she was one of the fabulous Harvey girls, and where the rich local bounty of Lucea yams, pimentos, and mangoes went hand in hand with the Victorian niceties of her parents'' house. It is a place she will return to in dreams when her fortunes change, years later, and she and her husband, Marcus Goodison, relocate to hard life Kingston and encounter the harsh realities of urban living in close quarters.

In Lorna Goodison''s luminous memoir of her forebears, we meet a cast of wonderfully drawn characters, including George O''Brian Wilson, the Irish patriarch of the family who marries a Guinea woman after coming to Jamaica in the mid-1800s; Doris''s parents, Margaret and David, childhood

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
      Published 3 March 2009
      ISBN-13 9780061337567
      978-0061337567
      ISBN-10 0061337560

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      Book Synopsis

      When Doris Harvey''s English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, he gives his name to what will become his family''s home for generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the place she always called home, the place where she was one of the fabulous Harvey girls, and where the rich local bounty of Lucea yams, pimentos, and mangoes went hand in hand with the Victorian niceties of her parents'' house. It is a place she will return to in dreams when her fortunes change, years later, and she and her husband, Marcus Goodison, relocate to hard life Kingston and encounter the harsh realities of urban living in close quarters.

      In Lorna Goodison''s luminous memoir of her forebears, we meet a cast of wonderfully drawn characters, including George O''Brian Wilson, the Irish patriarch of the family who marries a Guinea woman after coming to Jamaica in the mid-1800s; Doris''s parents, Margaret and David, childhood

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