A memoir in which the author recounts the death of her brother at the age of thirty-three from AIDS, and recalls incidents from his life, and the lives of other family members on the island of Antigua.
Xuela Claudette Richardson grows up in the care of her father's laundress obsessed with trying to piece together a portrait of her Carib mother who died at the moment of Xuela's birth.
A fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua, from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence fraught with events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent acceptance.
Presents approximately eighty short nonfiction pieces written by Jamaica Kincaid for the Talk of the Town section of "The New Yorker" magazine from 1978 to 1983, the period following her arrival in the U.S. from Antigua.
A memoir in which the author recounts the death of her brother at the age of thirty-three from AIDS, and recalls incidents from his life, and the lives of other family members on the island of Antigua.
