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Annie john book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The time your mother was carrying you,' '' - she fervently hopes for good. At the end we findĪnnie John bound for England - ''away from my home, away from my mother, away from my father, away from the everlasting blue sky, away from the everlasting hot sun, away from people who said to me, 'This happened during ![]() But like most paradises, there is a snake in it, and like most paradises, it does not last. My father,Īn only child, she is doted on by her parents, given the best education available and made much of by those who know her - paradise indeed. ''How terrible it must be for all the people who had no one to love them so, and no one whom they loved so, I thought. Not only that, she has her mother almost to herself. The weather is nice and the living is easy. ![]() ''It was in such a paradise that I lived,'' Annie John says of her early childhood after all, this is Antigua, This slender novel of interrelated stories (all of which appeared in The New Yorker). JAMAICA KINCAID, the author of the much praised story collection ''At the Bottom of the River,'' has packed a lot of valuable insight about the complex relationship between mothers and daughters into Her latest novel is ''In Another Country.''ġ48 pp. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy Susan Kenney Susan Kenney teaches English at Colby College in Maine. The New York Times: Book Review Search ArticleĪpril 7, 1985, Sunday, Late City Final Edition ![]()
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