The Full stop is a short story written by Alecia McKenzie. It’s a story about a young women Carmen who have been abandoned by mothers that migrated to England. The story is composed as a set of letters passed between the grandmother, Grand Ma Scottie and her granddaughter Carmen who is a medical doctor in New York City. They keep writing about grandma’s healthy, how’s days past, Carmen’s mother and her brother Richie. By and by the woman starts to think about her biological mother more and more and starts to wonder why her mother abandoned her as a baby.
The protagonist in this book is a woman named Carmen. She has a husband or boyfriend by her side called Normy. She is very loving and caring, and keeps helping her grandma giving her some money enclosed every once in a while for granny’s needs.
Carmen’s grandma is very religious and lives by her own in an old house. She’s very proud that she got to raise her daughter’s children when her daughter gave them up for grandma to take care off.
However, from time to time grandmother seems a bit hypocritical. Grandmother was the one in a first place who urged Carmen to talk with her mother. When Carmen tells that she heard her mother’s side of the story about how Carmen was taken to live with her grandma, grandmother loses her temper. Carmen is now very uncertain, which one of the stories holds the truth. Also the story behind why Richard refuses to talk with grandma is unknown which makes the story even more suspicious.