At the Bottom of the River Novels in Verse Rin learns that gods long

Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive--and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school

Anna Gardiner is on a mission: to make herself a household name

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A fascinating and eye-opening look at how American schools have helped build and reinforce an infrastructure of racial inequality

Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize

a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women

At the Bottom of the River Novels in Verse Rin learns that gods longKincaid's first book, which announced the arrival of a singular talent, "will burn on your shelf" (Derek Walcott). Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge gently into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partly remembered, partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean family, manners, and