I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.
Jamaica KincaidThe slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.
Jamaica KincaidHere I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.
Jamaica Kincaid