Annie John

The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form.

Since her first, prizewinning 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."

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 her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother's love. In this book, written in Kincaid's lucid, elemental style, Annie John's ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.

Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.48w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9781250322395

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 43274 / Annie John