“Jamaica Kincaid: (1949-) Antiguan novelist and short-story writer. Kincaid’s collection of ten short stories, At the Bottom of the River (1983), is distinctive in its poetic style and dream sequences. The collection explores what it means to grow up female in the Caribbean, through an intense mother/daughter relationship. Annie John (1985), an autobiographical novel, portrays a female protagonist struggling to establish an identity within the complexities of Caribbean society. Other works include A Small Place (1988), an essay about Antigua, and Lucy, a novel.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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