Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, this memoir is a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua, by the author of "Annie John."

"Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of "The Catcher in the Rye and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Kincaid's novel focuses on a... [More...]

The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations—newly available in paperback
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and... [More...]

Jamaica Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua. "Visceral and wrenching, this is a memoir of mourning . . . Kincaid's revelations are both... [More...]

Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and... [More...]

Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur. Ignoring the legacy of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mother, who committed suicide, Mr. Potter struggles to live at... [More...]

Novelist Kincaid ponders one of her greatest loves: gardening. She scrutinizes the sources of her inspiration—seed catalogs, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, and Monet's garden at Giverny—and takes an intimate, playful, and penetrating look at the... [More...]

In this delightful hybrid of a book—part memoir and part travel journal—the bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal with a trio of botanist friends in search of native Himalayan plants that will grow in her Vermont garden.... [More...]

From ""The Talk of the Town," Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York
"Talk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the "New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first came to... [More...]