Another Mother

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By Ross Kenneth Urken ’08

Published Aug. 7, 2019

To a young Ross Kenneth Urken ’08, Jamaican immigrant nanny Dezna Sanderson was the positive force in his life that helped him navigate his dysfunctional Jewish American family. Another Mother (Ian Randle Publishers) is a touching memoir of the woman Urken considered his closest confidante, researched by traveling to Jamaica and talking to her family, seeing the family pineapple business devastated economically by U.S. intervention, and developing a connection with her homeland.

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