The Autobiography of My Mother | PicadorThe Autobiography of My Mother Kitap Aklamas: Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksXuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela's vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arrival include that of her distant father, who sends her away to another household at the earliest opportunity