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  • Lucy

    A Novel

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--available now in an e-book edition.Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • My Brother

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Small Place

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him- ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Annie John

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    Jamaica Kincaid presents a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence at the very center of the little girl’s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother’s benign shadow. Looking back on her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Autobiography of My Mother

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal comes an unforgettable novel of one woman’s courageous coming of age.Powerful, disturbing, and stirring, Jamaica Kincaid’s novel is the deeply charged story of a woman’s life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • My Garden (Book)

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Among Flowers

    A Walk in the Himalaya

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardening are central to Kincaid’s work; in addition to such novels as Annie John and Lucy, Kincaid is the author of My Garden ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Annie John

    A Novel

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    The essential coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie's voice—urgent, demanding to be heard—is one that will not soon be forgotten by readers.An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Lucy

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 16 min

    The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid’s most admired creationsLucy, 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 Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple—handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade. With mingled anger and compassion ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Party

    A Mystery

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    Illustrated by Ricardo Cortés ...
    "Seeing the story illustrated with artwork by Ricardo Cortés gives it new life, and gives readers a whole new way of being drawn in. Kincaid and Cortés also capture the kind of wonder that children see new experiences through, making this adventure a particularly heartwarming read."--Bookstr"Party has layers. It functions as a subtle message about what it means to witness horror to such a degree ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    At the Bottom of the River

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 16 min

    This collection is Jamaica Kincaid’s earliest published writings: her inspired, lyrical short stories.These stories plunge the listener gently into another way of perceiving both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her narrative is, by turns, naïvely whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered, partly divined. The memories often concern a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    A Small Place

    by Jamaica Kincaid ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 48 min

    From the award-winning author of Annie John comes a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua.“If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the prime minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a prime minister would want an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook