Lucy

Jamaica Kincaid

• Title

  Lucy

• Date 1990
• ISBN 9780374194345
• Publisher New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  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. (FSG)

• Tags Fiction, West Indies