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A review by 05hamiltonk
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
5.0
I cried lots of times reading this with out really knowing why. Just knowing that I felt seen and heard. That these stories made me miss my grandma, it made me wish I’d asked her so much more, that I had recorded her voice when she told me stories. So I could remember what she told me and the way her voice sounds.
It made me wonder about my dad, how he felt growing up in a white world, being the only black child in school. Growing up without his dad, who looked after him when my grandma went to work? It made me think about his identity, his feelings of Jamaican-ness. Why he married a white woman, then had children with another - to be accepted? Before marrying a Jamaican woman. I’ll speak to him about all these things now, before it’s too late. So thank you to all the writers for this.
Each story had me questioning different elements of my own identity and made me want to learn more about my heritage. I’m so glad our history and stories are being heard.
It made me wonder about my dad, how he felt growing up in a white world, being the only black child in school. Growing up without his dad, who looked after him when my grandma went to work? It made me think about his identity, his feelings of Jamaican-ness. Why he married a white woman, then had children with another - to be accepted? Before marrying a Jamaican woman. I’ll speak to him about all these things now, before it’s too late. So thank you to all the writers for this.
Each story had me questioning different elements of my own identity and made me want to learn more about my heritage. I’m so glad our history and stories are being heard.