My Mother`s Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph 9780385689960

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Автор: Felicien Perdita
Название: My Mother`s Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph
ISBN: 9780385689960
Издательство: Doubleday Canada
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0385689969
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 30.03.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 279 x 221 x 10
Поставляется из: США
Описание: NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A phenomenal, human story. . . . I could not put this book down. --CLARA HUGHES

An instant national bestseller, this raw and affecting memoir is the story of a mother and daughter who beat the odds together.

Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nations hopes--she carried her mother Catherines dreams.

In 1974, Catherine is determined and tenacious, but shes also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows its her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to be their nanny--and she accepts.

This was the beginning of Catherines new life: a life of opportunity, but also suffering. Within a few years, she would find herself pregnant a third time--this time in her new country with no family to support her, and this time, with Perdita. Together, in the years to come, mother and daughter would experience racism, domestic abuse, and even homelessness, but Catherines will would always pull them through.

As Perdita grew and began to discover her preternatural athletic gifts, she was edged onward by her mothers love, grit, and faith. Facing literal and figurative hurdles, she learned to leap and pick herself back up when she stumbled. This book is a daughters memoir--a book about the power of a parents love to transform their childs life.

My Mother`s Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph, Felicien Perdita