See Now Then
Jamaica Kincaid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
<p><P><B>A beautifully wrought new novel about marriage and family from the acclaimed author of </B><I><B>Mr. Potter</B><BR></I><BR>In <I>See Now Then</I>, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid--her first in ten years--a marriage is revealed in all its 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 and 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. <I>See Now Then</I> is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to...</BR></BR></P></p>