Lucy (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jamaica Kincaid
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s
- Setting: An unnamed city in the United States
- Principal Characters: Lucy Josephine Potter, Mariah, Lewis, Dinah, Peggy, Hugh, Paul, Maude Quick, Timothy Simon, Lucy’s mother
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: New York, NY
The Novel
Lucy tells about a year in the life of a nineteen-year-old girl from the Caribbean who has just arrived in the United States. When the novel opens, Lucy is experiencing the shock of adapting to a new culture. Even the weather is deceiving: Although the January sun is shining, Lucy shivers in her thin clothing. She likes her new employers, Mariah and Lewis, and their children, for whom she cares, but she is somewhat homesick. This emotion confuses her because she was so eager to leave her home and begin a new life.
Interspersed with the day-to-day...
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