Girl | Social Concerns
First published in the June 26, 1978, issue of the New Yorker, "Girl" was the first of what would become more than a dozen short stories Jamaica Kincaid published in that magazine. Five years later, "Girl" appeared as the opening story in Kincaid's collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, her first book.
Kincaid had been working as a writer for the New Yorker for several years when one afternoon, after reading an Elizabeth Bishop poem, "In the Waiting Room," Kincaid sat down and wrote the short story "Girl" in one sitting. As she tells it, she found...
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