"" byis adelivered by a mother to her adolescent daughter, instructing herin
a series of pithy imperative statementson every aspect of how to live her life as a woman. The
mother teaches her daughter how to make traditional West Indian dishes, such as
doukona, how to garden, how to attend to the man in her life and, most
importantly, how not to be "a slut."
The monologue is based in
part on Kincaid's difficult relationship with her mother, a woman who migrated to
Antigua...
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