Precious Williams Precious

"`Where are you from?' is a question I always find hard to answer. 1971: an ad in Nursery World. `Private foster parents required for a three-month-old baby' - me. The lucky applicants are a 57-year-old white woman and her daughter, who love babies, especially black babies. My mother arrives, a haughty Nigerian woman in a convertible with a moses basket on the seat beside her, setting the net curtains in this all-white council estate twitching. And though the whole place makes my privileged mother's...

Engels | 256 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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