In the Box
Dale Peck, 6 February 1997
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
by Terry McMillan.
Viking, 368 pp., £16, September 1996,0 670 86990 2 Show More
by Terry McMillan.
Viking, 368 pp., £16, September 1996,
The Autobiography of My Mother
by Jamaica Kincaid.
Vintage, 228 pp., £8.99, September 1996,0 09 973841 4 Show More
by Jamaica Kincaid.
Vintage, 228 pp., £8.99, September 1996,
“... authors are all black; they are also all women, and they are also – or almost – all American (Jamaica Kincaid was born in Antigua, but left at 17 and has lived in the United States for the past thirty years), and it is primarily for these reasons that they are being reviewed together. I say ‘primarily’, because there is the added factor that ... ”