See Now Then: A Novel
Written by Jamaica Kincaid
Narrated by Jamaica Kincaid
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid—her first in ten years—a marriage is revealed in all it's joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters, a Mother and Father, their two children living in a small village in New England, as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future—for, as she writes, "the present will be a now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then." Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end.
Since the publication of her first short story collection, At The Bottom Of The River, nominated for a PEN / Faulkner Award for fiction, Jamaica Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface of things. In SEE NOW THEN, she envelops the listener in a world that is both familiar and startling—creating her most emotionally and thematically daring work yet.
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, Mr. Potter, and See Now Then. She teaches at Harvard University and lives in Vermont.
More audiobooks from Jamaica Kincaid
Thalia Book Club: Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Palace of the Peacock Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to See Now Then
Related audiobooks
Krik? Krak! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Where the Line Bleeds Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5John Crow's Devil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Augustown Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Not Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A House Is a Body: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thalia Book Club: Ann Petry's The Street with Sapphire, Sonia Manzano, and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Land of Love and Drowning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Eternal Audience of One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Travelers: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Salt Eaters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Every Leaf a Hallelujah Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Claire of the Sea Light Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Book of the Little Axe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oreo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Whispering Trees Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5These Ghosts are Family: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Toni Morrison Book Club Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Farming of Bones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Caul Baby: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper?, The Lion or the Mouse?, Poppy or the Snake? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Birds of Opulence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Literary Fiction For You
Tom Lake: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stardust Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Demon Copperhead: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Covenant of Water Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hunger Games Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Measure: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hate U Give Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Alchemist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poisonwood Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kindred Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yellowface: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Parable of the Sower Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Their Eyes Were Watching God Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Picture of Dorian Gray: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Name of the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for See Now Then
4 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Poetic, socially and politically relevant. And for me, residing in Vermont, so many things were relatable.