An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
2024
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A unique collaboration from two of America's leading artists that explores the fascination and hidden history of the plant world. In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind them. Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, multilayered watercolors. There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children ―inventive, surprising, and telling―about what our gardens reveal about the truth of history.
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Author
Jamaica Kincaid
Author · 19 books
Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont (in the United States), during the summers, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.
