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Chameleon: The Lives of Dorothy Proctor, from Street Criminal to International Special Agent
by Dorothy Proctor & Fred Rosen
USA, NJ: New Horizon Press, 1994
200pp. $22.95

Published in 1994, Chameleon remains a must-read. Proctor utters a prose that is colourful and brutally frank. Her mother was a midwife and self-taught abortionist and madam; her father was “pond scum.” Proctor was “a pretty little child, but I had dead eyes.” Her story is harrowing, but gripping – thanks to her unfettered use of Africadian vernacular, and her unflinching honesty. It shows the irresistible force of undiluted realism.

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