OFF TH
“I have been around for a long t
on my prey, blurring borders, s
world is full of visible and invisib
grieving, loving, hunting, conqu
laughing, and always will be.”
A REVIEW BY STEVEN R. THORNTON
T
his is only one of the powerful statements
Grace Jones declares in her new
autobiography, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs
released in September 2015. Titled after a
lyric of “Art Groupie” (from the 1981 landmark
recording “Nightclubbing”), Jones now seems to
have had a change of heart. Delivering a lush and
detailed journey from her repressive religious
upbringing as a child in the Caribbean island of
Jamaica to current day London, Memoirs takes
readers on an unforgettable ride.
Grace Beverly Jones is the third child and oldest
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