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In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new book from Jamaica Kincaid (her first in a decade), a relationship is revealed in every its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways that the duration of time operates on the individuals consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her character types - a mother, daddy, and two children living in a small village in New England - as they move, in their own heads, between the present, days gone by, and the future. For, as she writes, "the present will be a now then and days gone by is now then and the future will be a now then." Her character types, constrained by the globe, despair in their domestic situations. But their heads wander, seeking to make linear sense of what is, in truth, nonlinear. See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear whatever we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the center, and the end. Since the publication of her first brief report collection, At underneath of the River, nominated for a Pencil / Faulkner Honor for fiction, Jamaica Kincaid has proven a unique talent for discovering beyond and through the top of things. In See Now Then, she envelops the listener in a global that is both familiar and startling - creating her most emotionally and thematically daring work yet.
