Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua. She lives in North Bennington, Vermont and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.
Books by Jamaica Kincaid
3 books available
At the Bottom of the River
by Jamaica Kincaid
3.8(1,312)
Jamaica Kincaid's collection of lyrical short stories captures the vivid, often unsettling memories of a Caribbean childhood, exploring family ties, nature's duality, and the quiet power of everyday things through a voice both whimsical and deeply resonant.
A Small Place
by Jamaica Kincaid
4.0(8,999)
Jamaica Kincaid's "A Small Place" is a sharp, lyrical critique of post-colonial Antigua, showing the difficult realities of tourism and corrupt government beneath the island's beautiful surface.
Annie John
by Jamaica Kincaid
3.7(6,818)
In Antigua, a young girl's perfect world shatters when her mother becomes an adversary, forcing her to navigate adolescence and find herself.