Annie John

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.

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.48w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9781250322395
ISBN10: 1250322391
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Caribbean & West Indies

About the Author
Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, Mr. Potter, See Now Then, and An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (with Kara Walker). She lives in Vermont.