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This is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's first shared writings: her inspired, lyrical short stories. These stories plunge the listener carefully into another way of perceiving both the physical world and its own elusive inhabitants. Her narrative is, by turns, naïvely whimsical and biblical in its confidence, and it talks of what's partially remembered, partially divined. The memories often concern a child years in the Caribbean - family, manners, and panorama - as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and perspective. Kincaid leads us to consider, as though for the very first time, the powerful ties between mother and child, the beauty and destructiveness of character, the gulf between the masculine and the feminine, the importance of such familiar things as a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our individual form and our surroundings - shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place - these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.
