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This is my first novel by Jamaica Kincaid. I opened the book and I immediately knew this will be an emotional ride. The prose struck me just as much as Alice Walker’s did when I first read The color purple

"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."

"...I knew what she must have gone through, seeing her past go swiftly by in front of her. What an awful thing that is, as if the ground on which you are standing is being slowly pulled out from under your feet and beneath is nothing, a hole through which you fall forever."

"...I knew what she must have gone through, seeing her past go swiftly by in front of her. What an awful thing that is, as if the ground on which you are standing is being slowly pulled out from under your feet and beneath is nothing, a hole through which you fall forever."

Caribbean Heritage month 💗 and I need to feel something really quick

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