Annie John
by Jamaica Kincaid · 1985
Literary Fiction · ranked #214 in category
Annie John grows up in Antigua through childhood and adolescence, her intense relationship with her mother slowly shifting from adoration to estrangement. Kincaid's autobiographical novel is about female independence, colonialism's effect on the self, and the specific loss of leaving the island that formed you.
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