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A review by greyemk
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
4.75
LOVED this. Maybe I’m not over millennial fiction after all 🤔 (yes this was published in 1990 by a writer in her 40s but thematically it’s millennial fiction)
The prose here was really the standout for me. It was sparse yet poetic, inviting and easy to read yet full of profundity. Lucy is just perceptive enough, as a 19 year old. She pays attention, she knows she is naive, yet she still has her incisive opinions that she feels no need to sugarcoat (in the narrative, and occasionally in life).
I found this very refreshing. It is focused, clear, beautiful.
The prose here was really the standout for me. It was sparse yet poetic, inviting and easy to read yet full of profundity. Lucy is just perceptive enough, as a 19 year old. She pays attention, she knows she is naive, yet she still has her incisive opinions that she feels no need to sugarcoat (in the narrative, and occasionally in life).
I found this very refreshing. It is focused, clear, beautiful.