{"product_id":"putting-myself-together-writing-1974","title":"Putting Myself Together Writing 1974–","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jamaica Kincaid\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Picador, 2026-08-04\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\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\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as\u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMs\u003c\/i\u003e., proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePutting Myself Together \u003c\/i\u003eis 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","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47310225506473,"sku":"PHBK-9781250437884","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/5293773482633.jpg?v=1785533444","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/putting-myself-together-writing-1974","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}