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Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Title: Annie John
Publication Info: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1985.
Summary/Review:
Annie John is a novel about a young girl growing to become a young woman. The story includes the deterioration of her relationship with her mother, her love for another girl named Gwen, and Annie John’s depression. Colonization weighs over the story in the conflict between traditional ways and English culture. I don’t know if this novel is autobiographical, but Kincaid writes with a sense of lived experience while also being timeless.
Recommended books:
- Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Rating: ***
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