Abigail Palko, Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature (London: Palgrave, 2016), Ch. I really wanted to be able to gift this book to PhD students going through their own journeys as Black scholars- but don’t think I will. The roots if fed, grow deeper and thicker and turn what was a thin trunk into something much stronger that creates darker shadows.

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