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Jamaica Kincaid (/ k ɪ n ˈ k eɪ d /; born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson on May 25, 1949) [1] is an Antiguan–American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer.Born in St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, she now lives in North Bennington, Vermont, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence, Emerita at Harvard University.
Annie John, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1985, details the growth of a girl in Antigua, an island in the Caribbean.It covers issues as diverse as mother-daughter relationships, same-sex attraction, racism, clinical depression, poverty, education, and the struggle between medicine based on "scientific fact" and that based on "native superstitious know-how".
The plot of the novel closely mirrors Kincaid's own experiences. Lucy retains the critical tone of A Small Place but simplifies the style of Kincaid's earlier work by using less repetition and surrealism. The first of her books set completely outside the Caribbean, Lucy, like most of Kincaid's writing, has a strong autobiographical basis. The ...
The author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Backyard Bird Chronicles' on Jamaica Kincaid, 'Crazy Rich Asians,' and The Book on Her Nightstand
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See Now Then is the fifth novel of author Jamaica Kincaid, first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2013. Though reviewers were quick to note the many similarities between the characters in the novel and events in her life, Kincaid denied that the book was based on her divorce with Allen Shawn .
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