Introduction: filling in the gaps -- Dominica: the stories begin here -- Free and single in Antigua -- Raising an only child -- Unwanted brothers' arrival/rebel sister's exile -- In America, finally -- The silent years and the reconnection -- Annie Drew and her boys -- A brother's death/a sister's fears and fury -- Annie Drew's last years -- Jamaica's God is stilled -- Epilogue: "I married my mother."
Summary
In Search of Annie Drew offers an alternate reading of Kincaid's work that expands our understanding of the object of such passionate love and such ferocious hatred, an ordinary woman who became an unforgettable literary figure through her talented daughter's renderings
