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This essay is less than 100 pages (81 to be exact), but Kincaid's words are meant to be read at a slower pace (she writes with a neutral kind of tone that is a bit animated but that is only it on the surface). You have absorb all of what she says and dig deeper into how she says them. Kincaid examines the island of Antigua (where she is from) firs through the eyes of a European/American tourist (via second person narrative), and then she dives deeper into Antigua itself through its crumbling library, whose repairs have been "pending" since the 1970s, and especially through its government.

A Small Place is a book that I wish I could read and analyze for one of my college courses because there is so much here to examine further.