An American Boy and His Jamaican Nanny: A Conversation with Ross Kenneth Urken

“UNLIKE MOST JEWISH BOYS from New Jersey, I have a Jamaican accent,” writes Ross Kenneth Urken in Another Mother, his memoir in which he goes in search of both his recollections of the Jamaican nanny who raised him and all of the things he never knew about her before she died. He writes, Throughout my […] The post An American Boy and His Jamaican Nanny: A Conversation with Ross Kenneth Urken appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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