On the heels of her novel Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid returned to her Antigua home, decades after fleeing it for New York City. Lyrically expressing her affection and disdain for this ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies, Kincaid presents an off-kilter travelogue, with social commentary on the current state of Antigua, and a fierce critique of how colonialism has warped the lives of its inhabitants.

"Kincaid writes with passion and conviction … [with] a poet's understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur."—New York Times