My Garden (Book) (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jamaica Kincaid
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Nonfiction
- Genres: Nonfiction, Meditation
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Plants, Gardens or gardening, Botany or botanists, Vermont
- Locales: France, England, China, Vermont
Gardeners who open My Garden (Book) looking for descriptions of the proper way to cultivate tomatoes or to propagate roses are doomed to disappointment; instead, Kincaid offers readers a rambling history of her relationship with her own gardens. Along the way, she comments on other gardeners, seed companies, travels to garden shows, and expeditions to find new plants. The resulting picture is of Kincaid herself, by turns generous and bad tempered, willful and openhearted, helpful and demanding, and always a truthful if eccentric voice.
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