Annie John is excellent. Her short story "Girl" is great, too.
Here's a good quote, once again from Today in Literature.
I am not at all -- absolutely not at all -- interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity.... I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in the Declaration of Independence, "the pursuit of happiness"? I've come to think that it has no meaning at all. You cannot pursue happiness. And to think that this bad little sentence has determined our lives."
— Jamaica Kincaid, in response to an interviewer's observation that her novels never had happy endings and her outlook always seemed bleak; Kincaid was born (as Elaine Richardson) in Antigua on this day in 1949
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