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

A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid
4.0 (9k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle
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
Jamaica Kincaid
3.7 (7k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
In Antigua, a young girl's perfect world shatters when her mother becomes an adversary, forcing her to navigate adolescence and find herself.
At the Bottom of the River
Jamaica Kincaid
3.8 (1k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
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.