Taken from the only home she'd known at three, Rosemary Yvonne had no idea that journey would lead
to many homes in villages and cities of Jamaica...to the care of many "mothers" who enriched the
constant love of her own mother ...to a stellar education and becoming the first Jamaican woman
accepted to England's prestigious Leeds University ...to a position at the Jamaican Mission to the
United Nations and a Carnegie Fellowship that continued her journeys across the world...to marriage and life in Trinidad...to the challenge of facing widowhood with two young...

Now in her early 70's, the author looks back on her life: her family, the choices she made and the paths she took--with the last 60 years as a backdrop. She tells her very personal stories of the legacy she received, the impact of McCarthyism on her childhood, coming of age in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960's, and how she found her voice in the second wave of the women's liberation movement of the mid-1970's. She describes her transformation from a self-hating and hiding fat child into a proud fat woman who joined the fat liberation and size acceptance movements and...