Lucy: A Novel | 
pickI loved this. A young woman travels from the West Indies to be an au pair for an American couple's 4 daughters. She paints the family with a critical eye, develops friendships, explores her sexual desires, and reckons with her feelings for the mother and place she left behind. 👇🏽
"Along the paths and underneath the trees were many, many yellow flowers the size and shape of play teacups, or fairy skirts. They looked like something to eat and something to wear at the same time; they looked beautiful; they looked simple, as if made to erase a complicated and unnecessary idea. I did not know what these flowers were, and so it was a mystery to me why I wanted to kill them."
Hot damn. So far this is amazing.
Some replacements for my #Immigration and #NationalLiteracyMonth Display! 😁
Have you read any of these?!
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I just started this book and I can tell Jamaica Kincaid is an incredible writer.
This weekend's book haul 😍 I'm probably most excited for the Kincaid books and Woman in Cabin 10 (although my wife called dibs on reading that one first).
pickLucy is an au pair from the West Indies who adjusts to America and the family she works for. She's opinionated and sometimes speaks her mind. She also recalls her childhood back home and conflicted feelings about her mother. And, she deals with her own sexuality. Author Jamaica Kincaid manages to distill all this in 164 pages. While Lucy isn't always likeable, she is definitely unforgettable. Read this for Letter K (author) for #LitsyAtoZ.
Lucy makes a good point. Also (my thoughts) people will say they have an Native-American ancestor without considering what it might have meant to that ancestor back then (was he/she oppressed?) and/or what it is like to be one today.
I'm really sad one of my local used bookstores is closing, but I did score this sweet stack in their "fill a bag for $15" sale. And that's not including the big stack my fiancé got too!
"Columbus never set foot there but only named it in passing...He could not have known that he would have so many things to name and I imagined how hard he had to rack his brain after he ran out of names honoring his benefactors..." An excellent example of Lucy's gift of sizing up and cutting down.
