The extraordinary voice of Jamaica Kincaid –from Antigua to Vermont. Jamaica Kincaid’s early fiction first appeared in the New Yorker more than 40 years ago --powerful, moving stories, set on the Caribbean island of Antigua, about an intense relationship between a young girl and her mother.  In story after story, collected in Annie John, she probed the force and fragility of the relationship and her own profound ambivalence. Jamaica Kincaid left Antigua when she was 17.  She’d grown up in a house without electricity or water, and she started off as an au pair in New York, later capturing that experience in her novel, Lucy. In 1995, she wrote the novel The Autobiography of My Mother and while it continues some of her earlier themes, it goes further and is an uncompromising portrait of a woman determined to take hold of her life and resist the comforts of a more conventional existence.  And like all of her writing, there is a political dimension, an awareness of how power is distributed in this world.  Her latest book, Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974—  collects almost 50 years of her nonfiction, including her original thinking about the meaning of the garden. Jamaica Kincaid will be in Montreal, in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel. This event is part of the Eleanor Wachtel Blue Metropolis Series. 

Refunds

Until the event starts

Access for persons with mobility impairment

Yes

COMMENT SE RENDRE AU FESTIVAL
HOW TO GET TO THE FESTIVAL
Transport collectif Public transportation
Métro Saint-Laurent – Ligne verte/Green line
Métro Sherbrooke – Ligne orange/Orange line
Autobus 24 ou/or 55 bus lines
Le transport collectif est le meilleur moyen pour
se rendre au Festival et se déplacer d’un site à l’autre.
Public transportation is the best way to get to
the Festival and from site to site.

Stationnement Parking
• Payant à l’intérieur de l’Hôtel10 Payable inside Hotel 10
• Dans les rues avoisinantes On the surrounding streets