{"product_id":"putting-myself-together-by-jamaica-kincaid","title":"\"Putting Myself Together\" by Jamaica Kincaid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"My ignorance was on my side. I wasn’t afraid. I didn’t know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.\"\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMs.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom “Jamaica Kincaid’s New York,” which narrates her move to the city from Antigua at the age of sixteen and a half, to the classic “Biography of a Dress,” her cultural criticism, and her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, imparting her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to whatever crosses her path.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Putting Myself Together\" is a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this inimitable, self-created mind and spirit, endowed with wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our greatest, most original writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 310 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48037928632578,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0084\/8727\/2506\/files\/IMG_6292.jpg?v=1782264472","url":"https:\/\/pittsburghmercantile.com\/products\/putting-myself-together-by-jamaica-kincaid","provider":"Pittsburgh Mercantile","version":"1.0","type":"link"}