Annie John

By Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid

Subjects: Teenage girls--antigua and barbuda--antigua--fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, general, Mothers and daughters--antigua--fiction, Teenage girls, Teenage girls--antigua--fiction, Coming of age, mothers and daughters, domestic fiction, Mothers and daughters--antigua and barbuda--antigua--fiction, Fiction, teenage girls, Pr9275.a583 k5634 1997, Antigua--fiction, Antigua, Mothers and daughters

Description: Since her first, prize-winning 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 right now." 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 all her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother's love. In this novel, written in Kincaid's lucid, elemental style, Annie John's ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.