The Family

By Buchi Emecheta

Book Overview

A Jamaican girl joins her parents in London at age eleven and makesformidable adjustments and choices to overcome the limitations of herfamily life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807612456
• ISBN13: 9780807612453
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Captivating

Ms Buchi Emecheta is indeed one of the leading lights documenting the experience of Africans in the diaspora.She is indeed gifted.In this book which deals with the gradual emigration of a Jamaican family to England and the trials and tribulations they face there.It also deals with the issue of sexual abuse and incest and the damage it has on the family. The main character is a girl who lived with her grandmother in Jamaica for some years before joining her parents in England.It also has as a subtheme how the Black immigrants generally live in the U.K.I would indeed recommend it wholeheartedly to everybody.When you talk about Interpreters of Maladies the award winning book know that Ms Emecheta was indeed making chronicles of the African experience in the diaspora 20 years before that.