From Harvey River : a memoir of my mother and her island /
Lorna Goodison.
- 1st U.S. ed.
- New York : Amistad, [2008], c2007.
- 288 p. : ill., ; 22 cm.
Originally published: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2007.
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.