Sunshine, a young Jamaican girl, is desperate to know and understand her identity. Written as a series of letters to her absent mother, "Aunt Jen" traces the changing attitudes of a child entering adulthood as she begins to realize and accept the truth behind her mother's departure. A painfully one-sided correspondence through which Sunshine hopes to understand her own past, "Aunt Jen" reveals the complex inheritance we pass on to our children.

 

This book is part of a book series called Caribbean Writers .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Hodder Education .

Dr Anne-Maria Bankay is a lecturer in modern language education at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She is an established author of textbooks for CSEC and CAPE and has published several articles on Hispanic Literature in academic journals. Ingrid Kemchand is a teacher of Spanish and French and serves in Curriculum Development and Teacher-Training Programmes in Trinidad and Tobago. Dr Paulette Ramsay is an established author of Spanish texts for CSCE and CAPE and has also had several articles published in academic journals. She is a lecturer at the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where she undertakes research into literature and culture. Elaine Watson-Grant has taught at Wolmer's High School for Girls, Kingston, Jamaica, and is the co-author of Longman's VIVA 4: CXC. She currently teaches in the United States.