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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Family Tree
Prologue
Part One
The baby was plump and pretty as a ripe ox-heart…
How Harvey River became Harvey River. For all we know,…
Margaret Aberdeen Wilson met David Harvey when they were schoolchildren
Before the children came into their lives, days in Margaret…
Late one afternoon Doris had gone to bathe in the…
For months after the boy cut off her hair, my…
After she had reached sixth class, the highest class at…
Albertha, or Miss Jo, made only one friend at school:…
From the day that Rose was abducted by the village…
It could be said that uncle Flavius spent his life…
When the soles of his feet remained behind on the…
Every year on the seventeenth of March after Margaret’s father…
Part Two
It was a cricket match that first brought Vivian Marcus…
Now that all her other children had left the house,…
For the rest of her life, my mother would compare…
My father did not consider his job as a chauffeur…
Part Three
On their first morning in the city of Kingston, before…
When my mother awoke from one of her dreams, a…
“I never knew hard life until I came to Kingston,”…
In the evenings, when she finished with her sewing, my…
One evening Marcus arrived home from work and came in…
I was seven years old when I first saw the…
When you came up the long flight of stairs which…
“How you put up with Miss Mirry?” Everyone asked my…
Dear Mrs. Goodison, Would you please sweeten my mouth today…
After her last daughter, Ann, married and left Harvey River…
For weeks my mother’s mind had been running on Margaret.
In the early morning hours of Monday, September 2, 1957,…
Cleodine knows they call her “Mule” because she has never…
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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