Admission is free.
Kincaid's appearance is part of the Contemporary American Writers Series sponsored by the School of American and International Studies at Ramapo College. Her second book, Annie John , published in 1986, is the story of a young girl's coming of age in the West Indies. And that's exactly the book's strength, its wisdom, its truth. Jamaica Kincaid was born and educated in St. John's, Antigua, in the West Indies, and she now lives with her husband and children in Vermont. Her third book, A Small Place , published in 1989, is an extended essay about the shameful legacy of Antigua's colonial past written in language that rises above anger and her outrage.