num_pages: 164
description: Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.
language: English
title: Lucy
titlecomplete: Lucy
genres: Literature, Post Colonial, Feminism, Literary Fiction, Classics, Novels, School, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 11352
places: Antigua and Barbuda, The United States of America
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux