Annie John

Annie John
AuthorJamaica Kincaid
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherHill & Wang Pub (US) & Vintage (UK)
Publication date
March 1985
Publication placeAntigua
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages160 p. (paperback edition)
ISBN0-374-10521-9 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-09-977381-3 (UK paperback edition)
OCLC11550274
813/.54 19
LC ClassPR9275.A583 K5634

Annie John, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1985, details the growth of a girl in Antigua, an island in the Caribbean. It covers issues as diverse as mother-daughter relationships, same-sex attraction, racism, clinical depression, poverty, education, and the struggle between medicine based on "scientific fact" and that based on "native superstitious know-how".