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""Putting Myself Together captures [Kincaid's] questing sensibility through a half-century's worth of personal essays and cultural criticism that provide a model of sumptuous slow thinking."" --Niela Orr, The New York Times ""Since her 1985 debut novel, ""Annie John,"" the Antiguan-born Kincaid has been impossible to ignore . . . the works [collected in Putting Myself Together] speak of a person who has refused to be defined by any kind of constraints."" --Bethanne Patrick, The Los Angeles Times ""Kincaid's cutting prose shines, and the collection makes for a marvelous account of the author's life and career. This is a triumph."" --Publishers Weekly (starred review) ""Putting Myself Together traces the shifts in Jamaica Kincaid's preoccupations--from the intricacies of social dynamics to the verdant dynamics of a garden bed."" --Maggie Lange, W Magazine ""Kincaid is a master of literary nonfiction's multifarious forms."" --Walton Muyumba, The Boston Globe

""Kincaid's cutting prose shines, and the collection makes for a marvelous account of the author's life and career. This is a triumph."" -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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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, See Now Then, and, with Kara Walker, An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children. She lives in Vermont.

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