{"title":"Jamaica Kincaid","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"jamaica-kincaid-womb-house-books-hat","title":"Jamaica Kincaid Womb House Books Hat","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis adjustable cotton hat in a vintage mustard color features \"Jamaica Kincaid\" embroidered on the front and \"Womb House Books\" on the back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53049961185589,"sku":null,"price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/IMG_6432.jpg?v=1782792894"},{"product_id":"a-small-place-by-jamaica-kincaid-1","title":"A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLyrical, sardonic, and forthright, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Small Place\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emagnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid’s expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, Antigua, and makes palpable the impact of European colonialism and tourism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a missive to the traveler, whether American or European, who wants to escape the banality and corruption of some large place. Kincaid, powerful and resolute, reminds us that the Antiguan people, formerly British subjects, are unable to escape the same drawbacks of their own tiny realm―that behind the benevolent Caribbean scenery are human lives, always complex and often fraught with injustice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53083638432053,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/ASmallPlace.jpg?v=1783040132"},{"product_id":"annie-john-by-jamaica-kincaid","title":"Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince her first, prizewinning collection of stories, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAt the Bottom of the River\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Jamaica Kincaid’s work has been met with nothing short of amazement. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehailed her “prophetic power” and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esaid, “No one else seems to be writing quite this way.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAnnie John\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open the theme that lies at the heart of her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother’s love. In this book, written in Kincaid’s lucid, elemental style, Annie John’s ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53083648065845,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/AnnieJohn.jpg?v=1783040265"},{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-my-mother-by-jamaica-kincaid-1","title":"The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis novel tells the deeply charged story of a woman’s life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKincaid takes us from Xuela’s childhood in a home where she can hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack LaBatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela’s is an intensely physical world, redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road, and it seethes with her sorrow, her fear of her father, her desperate loneliness, and her deep sympathy for those who share her history. But underlying all is “the black room of the world” that is Xuela’s motherlessness and barrenness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53083651572021,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/TheAutobiographyOfMyMother.jpg?v=1783040383"},{"product_id":"lucy-by-jamaica-kincaid","title":"Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple―handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers’ world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with the way the family lives, she is also unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLucy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed of adamantine clear-sightedness and ferocious integrity―a captivating heroine for our time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53083659731253,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/Lucy.jpg?v=1783040482"},{"product_id":"my-brother-by-jamaica-kincaid-2","title":"My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMy Brother\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53083671331125,"sku":null,"price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/MyBrother_9c66dde4-b723-4f07-aed1-e572c3989864.jpg?v=1783040568"},{"product_id":"my-garden-book-by-jamaica-kincaid","title":"My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"df3lcg-tvyss5-whcpkc-8ngc9g\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMy Garden (Book)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. 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