ALSO BY JAMAICA KINCAID
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
ANNIE JOHN
A SMALL PLACE
LUCY
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER
MY BROTHER
MY FAVORITE PLANT (EDITOR)
JAMAICA KINCAID
MY GARDEN (BOOK):
Jamaica Kincaid’s most recent books are Talk Stories (FSG, 2001), a compilation of her New Yorker writings, and an anthology of writing on plants that she edited, My Favorite Plant (FSG, 1998). She lives in Vermont with her husband and children, and she teaches at Harvard University.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 1999 by Jamaica Kincaid
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Designed by Susan Mitchell
eISBN 9781466828742
Published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First paperback edition, 2001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kincaid, Jamaica.
My garden (book): / Jamaica Kincaid.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-374-52776-8 (pbk.)
1. Gardens Anecdotes. 2. Gardening Anecdotes. 3. Kincaid,
Jamaica. 4. Gardeners Anecdotes. I. Title.
SB455.K48 1999
635—dc21
99-26204
Some essays in this book have appeared, in slightly different form, in Architectural Digest, DoubleTake, The New Yorker, and Travel & Leisure.