At the Bottom of the River

It was great to finally read Girl, the story that is like a thread through all of Kincaid's writing and one she continues to talk about today. I enjoyed all the stories, though prefer he style in the long form, where we have time to settle into it, it requires more concentration in the short form and......more

Jamaica Kincaid is a word witch, a sentence sorceress. At the Bottom of the River is a collection of her short stories in the form of prose poetry. It is composed of stories that first appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review between 1978 and 1983. My three favourite stories in the collection......more

Geçtiğimiz yıl Jamaica Kincaid'in dilimize çevrilen ilk kitabı olan Annemin Otobiyografisi'ni okumuş ve çok etkilenmiştim, kendisinin öykü derlemesi olan Nehrin Dibinde çıkınca da hemen okuyayım dedim. Karayip asıllı Amerikalı yazarın yayınlanmış ilk kitabı bu. Bu şiirli öyküler ilk kez The New York......more

I read and read and read not knowing what was happening and then suddenly my eyes would fill up and I’d get it. So dreamlike, both in the imagery and the element of uncertainty in where the writing will go, and sometimes that rug-pulled-out ickyness. magical tbh. My Mother has got to be one of the m......more

A collection of stories that read like prose laden with poetry, like conversations within stories, and like memories falling from lips. In these stories I could see games played where a word would start a chain of telling, whereby every following link would begin with the last word from the previous......more