Annie John - A Novel

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.