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Also by Jamaica Kincaid:

Mr. Potter, May 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
See Now Then, February 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
At The Bottom Of The River, October 2000
Paperback / e-Book
The Autobiography Of My Mother, January 1996
Hardcover / e-Book

MR. POTTER
By: Jamaica Kincaid

Picador
May 2024
On Sale: May 7, 2024
208 pages
ISBN: 1250340659
EAN: 9781250340658
Kindle: B083Y65BMP
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction

Jamaica Kincaid’s first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air.

As Mr. Potter’s narrative unfolds in linked vignettes, his story becomes the story of a vital, damaged community. Amid his surroundings, he struggles to live at ease: to purchase a car, to have girlfriends, and to shake off the encumbrance of his daughters—one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy.

In Mr. Potter, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any other in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life.