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The coming-of-age history of 1 of Jamaica Kincaid's most respected creations Lucy, a teenage female from the Western 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 few - handsome, abundant, and apparently happy. Yet almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the stunning realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own recent, but neither is she ready to be deceived about where she presently is. At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with Lewis' and Mariah's lives, she actually is also unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Slowly but surely a fresh person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has generated a startling new personality possessed with adamantine clear-sightedness and ferocious integrity - a captivating heroine for our time.
