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Apr 25, 1982 · This creature lived inside and outside its mound, remembering and forgetting, pain and pleasure so equally balanced, each assigned to what it ...

Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively ...

Lovely book -- one of those under-hyped classics. It's a collection of short stories that are written in an experimental style. Some stories are better than ...

At the Bottom of the River is a collection of her short stories in the form of prose poetry. It is composed of stories that first appeared in The New Yorker and ...

Jan 31, 2023 · The light shone and shone and fell and fell, but there were no shadows. In this world, on this terrain, there was no day and there was no night.

Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively ...

In 1983 Kincaid's first book, At the Bottom of the River, a collection of short stories and reflections, was published. Setting a pattern for her later work, it ...

The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn't a bird. It is a woman who has removed her skin and is on her way to drink the blood of her secret ...

The narrator looks back at the riverbank and sees herself as she truly is before entering the sea. She sees nothing living and feels a detachment from herself, ...