Family Estrangement, Jamaican Culture & the Weight of Loyalty with Soni Brown

Send us Fan Mail In a family where loyalty matters deeply, what does it mean to step away from a relationship that hurts? Jamaican writer and educator Soni Brown joins the show for a candid conversation about family estrangement, the expectations attached to being a daughter, and the silence that can keep painful patterns going.

Drawing on her essay “Wash Belly,” Soni shares her experience of distancing herself from her mother, later becoming her caregiver through dementia, and confronting the reality that returning to a relationship does not always bring the reconciliation we hope for. Connect and read: Soni Brown: No Contact: Writers on Estrangement , including Soni’s essay “Wash Belly”: Mentioned in the conversation: How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir by Camille U.

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