No Hannibal Lecter here. Just a single mother and her animalistic
raging passion with a few quid pro quos as she grippingly strives
for survival for herself and her eight children. Men in Essie's
world are after only one thing, and she is glad to give it to
them--but only with a little quid pro quo to support her and her
growing brood. Mark McLaughlin Essie, an orphan child, had an awful
abusive family in the countryside of Jamaica. She was always down
on her luck with men. After eight children with none of their
fathers around, she came close to giving up. She migrated to the
USA which made her wanting to live once again. However, getting
here was another story. That was when all of the drama began.
Excerpt: Gena was ahead of the game. She knew that if anything went
wrong, she would have to quickly separate herself from the pack and
bail out. That was exactly what she did. As soon as her papers were
processed, she did not linger. She calmly walked by Bunny and Lela,
who were still being questioned. Gena held her head straight as if
she didn't know them and had no part in other people's affairs. As
the old Jamaican saying goes, it was like "when chicken a pass by
dentist office," meaning, since chickens have no teeth, they have
no concern with dentists, and therefore, they hold their heads up
high with pride when passing by a dental office because they have
no reason to care. Gena held on tightly to little Faith's hand and
headed straight out through the doors of the airport. She took a
quick glance back just before she disappeared through the main
doorway, and disappointment slapped her squarely in the face. She
saw that the immigration officer was leading Bunny and Lela away to
a special room. She noticed the sad looks on their faces. They were
as disappointed as the inarguable favorite to win; the Brazilian
team, when they got surprisingly knocked out of the 2010 FIFA World
Cup. The Brazilian team was knocked out by the Netherlands team in
the stage-two round of the sixteen knock-out phase. Gena walked
away feeling as sad as Maradona, the famous one-time soccer player
and now coach of the Argentinean team. He stood on the sidelines of
the same 2010 FIFA quarter finals and watched his team get brutally
beat down by Germany, four goals to zero. Book Review by CN Weekly
News; Dr. Luke A. M. Brown (the Lamb) has succeeded in writing a
very interesting and entertaining book, focusing on a mother's
relentless love in a community adjacent to Jamaica's second city,
Montego Bay. The story's about the pretty, shapely, country girl,
Essie, who escaped life with an abusive family to live in Montego
Bay. There, as a result of several failed romantic relationships,
the young girl bears eight children for multiple men but matures to
a strong, caring mother. Essie meanders through her relationships
with hope then despair, as again and again she is abandoned after
bearing a child. But Essie presses on excelling as a chef,
acquiring a house, and skillfully juggling scarce funds to cloth,
feed and school her children. As adults, the children succeed in
making much of their lives, building on the foundation of their
mother's love. Her eldest child and daughter, Gina, manages to get
to the U.S., via the Bahamas, becomes a U.S. citizens and helped
most of her siblings and her mother to migrate. One of her
children, Leonard, whose life seems remarkably familiar to the
author, becomes a Doctor of Pharmacy, the core of Essie's pride.
Essie grows old, sick and dies in the U.S., and her body is
returned to Jamaica for burial where Leonard offers a moving
eulogy. But the remarkable funeral is ruined when one of Essie's
sons who despised her because she left him with his father, who
Essie eventually marries, in the Jamaican countryside, sparked a
major disturbance at the graveside over the reading of the will.
The author gives an in-depth account of the Jamaican culture and
folklore.
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