Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
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Lucy

Author: Jamaica Kincaid

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 4 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2025


Synopsis

The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations—newly available in audio

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple—handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is.

At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with Lewis's and Mariah's lives, she is also unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and ferocious integrity—a captivating heroine for our time.

About Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, Mr. Potter, and See Now Then. She teaches at Harvard University and lives in Vermont.


Reviews

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | “Everything I could see looked unreal to me; everything I could see made me feel I would never be part of it, never penetrate to the inside, never be taken in.” From the very first page, I was enthralled by Lucy’s deceptively simple narration. To begin with, I was stru......more

Goodreads review by Cece on September 07, 2016

*Rereading this book. First time I read it was in 2013 for a class, now I'm rereading for another class for the exact same professor. Clearly she adores this book. Hoping I get more out of it this time. Update: I got nothing new out of it the second time around. I just don't care about Lucy. Her char......more

Goodreads review by Zoe on March 09, 2024

new feminine rage book just dropped (in 1990)......more