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A great writer's lush, panoramic novel: the storyplot of a typical man, his century, and his home. Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi cab chauffeur who makes his living across the wide, open highways that pass the one cities he has ever seen and the graveyard where he'll be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean sits on every part, and suppressed interest fills the environment. Misery infects the unstudied, slow-moving pace of the island and of Mr. Potter's days and nights. As the narrative unfolds in associated vignettes, his story becomes the storyplot of an essential, crippled community. Kincaid strings alongside one another a moving picture of Mr. Potter's ancestors - you start with memories of his daddy, an unhealthy fisherman, and his mother, who dedicated suicide - and the outside world that presses in on his life, in the form of his Lebanese company and, later, several fleeing World Conflict II. Within these area, Mr. Potter battles to live at ease: to buy a car, to acquire girlfriends, to get rid of the encumbrance of his daughters - one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and inform his story with equal methods of distance and sympathy. In Mr. Potter, her most luminous, ambitious work as of yet, Kincaid breathes life into a physique unlike any in modern day fiction, a person consciousness rising gloriously out of unexamined life.
