The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form.
Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories,
At the Bottom of the River
, Jamaica Kincaid’s work has been met with nothing short of amazement.
The New York Times
hailed her “prophetic power” and the
Los Angeles Times Book Review
said, “No one else seems to be writing quite this way.”
With
Annie John
, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open the theme that lies at the heart of her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother’s love. In this book, written in Kincaid’s lucid, elemental style, Annie John’s ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.