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Cargando... My Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumphpor Perdita Felicien
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Perdita’s story is part sports memoir, part inspirational tale of family love and resilience. Raised in poverty by her immigrant mother, Perdita rose to prominence through her career as an Olympic athlete. In many ways, this book is a love letter to her mother who overcame racism, domestic abuse, and homelessness to become her daughter’s biggest fan and supporter. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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 nation's hopes--she carried her mother Catherine's dreams. In 1974, Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she's 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 it's her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to be their nanny--and she accepts. This was the beginning of Catherine's 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 Catherine's will would always pull them through. As Perdita grew and began to discover her preternatural athletic gifts, she was edged onward by her mother's 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 daughter's memoir--a book about the power of a parent's love to transform their child's life. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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