"Writers make uncomfortable kin." Jamaica Kincaid
No doubt! Jamaica Kincaid draws attention to that issue in her new novel
SEE NOW THEN. Check out the following review where the author's life is directly referred to when reviewing her fictional novel.
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JAMAICA KINCAID
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February 22, 2013
Home Truths
By
FERNANDA EBERSTADT
"Yet Kincaid, it seems, can never breathe easy. “See Now Then,” her first
novel in 10 years, examines the hidden fault lines of a happy family
that might be seen as an allegorical version of her own. Composed in
incantatory prose, a “Mrs. Dalloway”-like loop of multiple viewpoints,
including passages quoted or imagined from Kincaid’s other books, the
novel examines — in strains hurtling from satire to fairy-tale innocence
to raw pain — the faulty nature of perception."
