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A review by joelkarpowitz
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
3.0
A coming of age story about a young girl in Antigua navigating her growing independence and her up-and-down relationship with her mother. So, you know, right down my alley.
Then again, that's what books are for, in part, right? Getting outside your own experience, growing in empathy, seeing the world from eyes wildly different from your own. Kincaid's writing is readable, honest, and thought-provoking, even if it's relatively light on "plot." Still, Annie John is as "true" a character as I've read recently, full if the paradoxes, and pride and doubt that seems to beset many teenage girls. (Of course my experience is second-hand, but as a high school teacher I've had a lot if contact with young women this age.) it's a short read, but a compelling one. Worth a look.
Then again, that's what books are for, in part, right? Getting outside your own experience, growing in empathy, seeing the world from eyes wildly different from your own. Kincaid's writing is readable, honest, and thought-provoking, even if it's relatively light on "plot." Still, Annie John is as "true" a character as I've read recently, full if the paradoxes, and pride and doubt that seems to beset many teenage girls. (Of course my experience is second-hand, but as a high school teacher I've had a lot if contact with young women this age.) it's a short read, but a compelling one. Worth a look.