Mother Island Format:Hardcover The first picture book written

The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning creator Vashti Harrison traces a child’s journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal

With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels

They could envision the end of slavery

The Economist

Mother Island Format:Hardcover The first picture book writtenA searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself A lushly written, deeply felt investigation into the meanings of home, lineage and selfhood. Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Body Work and Girlhood Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the