Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2000
On Sale: October 15, 2000
96 pages ISBN: 0374527342 EAN: 9780374527341 Kindle: B00B8S5DKU Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbeanβfamily, manners, and landscapeβas distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.
Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar thingsβa house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundingsβshedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect placeβthese stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.
Ten short fictions whose concerns are frequently a childhood in the Caribbean.
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