About this title: Lucy, a 19-year-old au pair from the West Indies, is pleased with her employers, who seem to be urbane and perfect, and their four daughters. Yet as she grows closer to the family and perceives the cracks in the facade of their lives, Lucy must come to terms with her own sexuality, her feelings towards her mother, and the memories of her past.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780224030557ISBN:0224030558
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Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, N. Y.
Date Published: 1990
Description: Cover Art. Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws........The hard cover and the jacket has very light shelf wear...The front end page has ink markings.......We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780452266773ISBN:0452266777
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Plume Contemporary Fiction. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G K Hall & Co
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780816152018ISBN:0816152012
Description: Very Good. -Hardcover-Clear mylar protects dust cover-Ex-Library book, has usual Stamps and markings consistent with Library Books. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780374194345ISBN:0374194343
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780374194345ISBN:0374194343
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
"I felt myself getting angry at the narrator's stupid decisions and hating some of her viewpoints. She talks about all the women who chase after her father, and how many children he'd sired, but never expresses anger at him for being a bad father. She does take the time to get angry about memorizing Wordsworth's "Daffodils" (which isn't the greatest poem, to be honest), though. I'd rather be angry at a promiscuous man than a long-dead poem, but of course, her anger about the poem represents her anger at the colonizing forces. But still... her dad was a jerk!
"This book is about a teenage girl who traveled to North America to work for Lewis and Mariah and their four childrens. Lewish and Mariah are rish and a happy family. But lucy notices the craks and anger behind the family. lucy starts to learn more and more of the new world compared to her native place. lucy has no ilusion about her past and neither is she prepared to be lied to about where she presently is. Slowly, a new person unfolds: passionate, straight forward, and disarmingly honest."
"I thought this was all right. It was written with a sort of distance between the narration and any emotions the narrator might be having. Similar to Jhumpa Lahiri. Wonder if it comes of being a New Yorker writer?"
"I totally forgot I read this book until I was looking through a friend (Christine Z's) list and saw a book by Jamaica Kincaid. I don't think I liked it but I don't really remember."
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