How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir novel her novel is rejected by

her novel is rejected by yet another publisher

Lilac and Jasmine

and heartfelt insight on the tough issues facing our nation’s youth

Moses and Calvin McKissack

Loretta Ross was a single mother in Washington who’d had to drop out of Howard University

How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir novel her novel is rejected byMapping the fault lines between mother and child (humanity's first and supposedly strongest bond), and with a poet's homeric vision of her native Trinidad, Camille U. Adams weaves the Caribbean island's history of colonial violence with her own family's legacy of abandonment. For generations, the women of Camille U. Adams' family have left their daughters. Some follow the siren call of rum, the centuries old vice which alighted on Trinidad's shores