"Ms. Kincaid writes with passion and conviction . [with] a poet's understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur." -- The New York Times "A jeremiad of great clarity and force that one might have called torrential were the language not so finely controlled." -- Salman Rushdie "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. And I trust her." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "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 is truth, beautifully and powerfully stated . 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." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Wonderful reading . Tells more about the Caribbean in 80 pages than all the guidebooks." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer.