Yvonne Shorter Brown's Dead Woman Pickney (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011) is a memoir about coming of age in Jamaica. It focuses on racism and colonialism as themes. Brown left Jamaica in 1969 for Canada, and spent thirty-nine years living in B.C. prior to its publication.

BOOKS:

Dead Woman Pickney (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011) 978-1-55458-189-4 $24.95

[BCBW 2011]