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Jamaica Kincaid
Born
in St. Johns, Antigua and Barbuda
May 25, 1949
Genre
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A Small Place
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published
1988
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28 editions
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Lucy
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published
1990
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48 editions
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Annie John
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published
1985
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50 editions
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The Autobiography of My Mother
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published
1996
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58 editions
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Girl
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published
1978
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2 editions
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At the Bottom of the River
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published
1983
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31 editions
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My Brother
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published
1997
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34 editions
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See Now Then
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published
2013
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22 editions
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My Garden (Book)
by
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published
1999
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10 editions
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Mr Potter
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published
2002
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25 editions
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“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
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“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
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“You are not an ugly person all the time; you are not an ugly person ordinarily; you are not an ugly person day to day. From day to day, you are a nice person. From day to day, all the people who are supposed to love you on the whole do. From day to day, as you walk down a busy street in the large and modern and prosperous city in which you work and lie, dismayed and puzzled at how alone you can feel in this crowd, how awful it is to go unnoticed, how awful it is to go unloved, even as you are surrounded by more people than you could possibly get to know in a lifetime that lasted for millennia and then out of the corner of your eye you see someone looking at you and absolute pleasure is written all over the person's face, and then you realize that you are not as revolting a presence as you think you are. And so, ordinarily, you are a nice person, an attractive person, a person capable of drawing to yourself the affection of other people, a person at home in your own skin: a person at home in your own house, with its nice backyard, at home on your street, your church, in community activities, your job, at home with your family, your relatives, your friends - you are a whole person.”
― A Small Place
― A Small Place
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