A Small Place Audiobook

Quotes

• “A jeremiad of great clarity and force that one might have called torrential were the language not so finely controlled.”

  — Salman Rushdie, #1 New York Times bestselling author

• “Ms. Kincaid writes with…a poet’s understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur.”

  — New York Times

• “A rich and evocative prose that is also both urgent and poetic…Kincaid is a witness to what is happening in our West Indian back yards.”

  — Los Angeles Times Book Review

• “Wonderful reading…Tells more about the Caribbean in eighty pages than all the guidebooks.”

  — Philadelphia Inquirer

• “In truly lyrical language that makes you read aloud, [Kincaid] takes you from the dizzying blue of the Caribbean to the sewage of hotels and clubs where black Antiguans are only allowed to work…Truth, wisdom, insight, outrage, and cutting wit.”

  — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

• “Kincaid continues to write with a unique, compelling voice that cannot be found anywhere else. Her small books are worth a pile of thicker—and hollower—ones.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “This electrifying work is a new classic in the literature of hate—and of love, for a tortured land and for the possibility, albeit dim, of changing things.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Kincaid…asks us to grasp the crime of empire in a new way, stressing that it can be understood only from a post-colonial point of view.”

  — Library Journal