Synopsis
A landmark collection of essays by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid.
That’s the way I write. It’s never going to stop. And the more it makes people annoyed the more I will do it.
Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua in 1949. She has always been herself. Her work began to be published after she moved to New...
Details
11 September 2025352 pages
9781035036103Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer’Susan Sontag
‘What a writer – elegant, uncompromising, simultaneously direct and layered and complex’Ali Smith, author of Gliff
‘I’ve read everything by Jamaica Kincaid, and I’ve still never read anyone like her. If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you’Jackie Kay, author of May Day
‘Both a daughter of Brontë and Woolf and her own inimitable self’The Wall Street Journal
