Annie John

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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.

subjects: domestic fiction,  mothers and daughters,  teenage girls,  Fiction,  Coming of age,  Fiction, general,  Mothers and daughters--antigua--fiction,  Teenage girls--antigua--fiction,  Antigua,  Antigua--fiction,  Mothers and daughters--antigua and barbuda--antigua--fiction,  Teenage girls--antigua and barbuda--antigua--fiction,  Pr9275.a583 k5634 1997,  Literature, study and teaching,  Literature, modern, history and criticism

Places: Antigua