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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

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
By: Jamaica Kincaid

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2000
On Sale: October 15, 2000
96 pages
ISBN: 0374527342
EAN: 9780374527341
Kindle: B00B8S5DKU
Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life

Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories

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 Caribbean—family, manners, and landscape—as 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 things—a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings—shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place—these 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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