{"product_id":"putting-myself-together","title":"Putting Myself Together","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and Ms., proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePutting Myself Together\u003c\/em\u003e 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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54627438821600,"sku":"9781250437884","price":4290.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9781250437884.jpg?v=1788346995","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/putting-myself-together","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}