Antigua and Barbuda

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 Jamaica Kincaid / Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson (1949) Annie John, a novel written in 1985, details the growth of a girl in Antigua, an island in the Caribbean. It covers issues as diverse as mother-daughter relationships, same-sex attraction, racism, clinical depression, poverty, education, and the struggle between medicine based on "scientific fact" and that based on "native superstitious know-how".

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