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Harriet's Daughter (Caribbean Writers Series)

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The book deals with racial discrimination and how a young girl copes with it. However, more importantly the book is really about a dysfunctional family into which Harriet does not fit; her father dislikes her and keepts threatening to send her back to Jamaica and as well she has two sisters with whom she cannot associate. (like Cinderella
and her stepsisters). The book is a good read for adolescent girls.

While this wasn't the best written book that I've ever read, nor the most touching, it is definately worth reading. As a Jamaican, I could relate to Margaret's childhood and her father's constant threats to send her to Barbados and get some 'Good West Indian Discipline'. This book gives a good picture of a young girl's coming of age, I wish there was a part 2.

Can i get a chapter log of Harriet's Daughter?

How can a book be credible if on the first page one of the characters says, "C'on, guys....let's beat it"? That is completely modern slang. No one spoke like that in those days. And such a trite, cliche thing to say. "Let's go" gives more urgency. "Let's beat it" is teenage slang for let's just get out of here...imparts no sense of danger or urgency. These are people who were nearly captured....who were missed by sniffing dogs because they were hiding in bushes...also not credible!

If you want to read a worthwhile book on this period, read "The Unknown World". Every American should read that book.

TO HELP MARGARET HERBEST FRIEND GO BACK TO TOBAGO.