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Jamaica Kincaid
Issue: 31 August 2015
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This story is no longer available in the Strange Horizons Archive, but you can read Karen Lord's introduction to the story here.


© Copyright 1989 Jamaica Kincaid
About Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid is a writer of novels, stories, and essays, and a professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her most recent novel, See Now Then (2013), won an American Book Award.
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