At the Bottom of the River Novels in Verse NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A fascinating and eye-opening look at how American schools have helped build and reinforce an infrastructure of racial inequality

she was forced to reshape her life

At the height of his theatrical career

Foreword by Kiese Laymon

and hungry villains in bowler hats

At the Bottom of the River Novels in Verse NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -Kincaid's first book, which announced the arrival of a singular talent, "will burn on your shelf" (Derek Walcott). Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge gently into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partly remembered, partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean family, manners, and