Description
A braided collection of ten inter-connected stories, this book follows the intimate, often unsettling negotiations of growing up on a post-colonial Caribbean island. Across a vast, elemental landscape of river, grass, and relentless light, a mother’s voice—part instruction, part warning—threads through the lives of daughters as they learn what it means to be seen, to survive, and to belong. Kincaid’s stories move with the force of oral tradition and the precision of literary craft, using lyrical, sometimes startling one-sentence momentum to explore power, gender, class, and the inheritance of language. With themes of desire and danger, freedom and constraint, the collection captures how everyday domestic moments can carry the weight of history.
Available Editions
paperback
Picador
Published Jan 1, 2024
ISBN: 9781250322418
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Details
First Published
1983
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid.