A bizarre creature living in a mound gives up hunting honeybees in the title story of a collection by her that opens with a long (*) list of instructions warning a "Girl" not to become a "slut."
In one novel by this author, a girl who conflates Percy the Chick's fall with Paradise Lost after she is forced to copy it out has a son who plays with "shy Myrmidons." In that novel, homicidal rage inspires an unhappy husband to compose nocturnes like This Marriage is Dead in Shirley Jackson's former home. One of this author's characters hides forbidden marbles under her house and attends other people's funerals after learning about death. A bizarre creature living in a mound gives up hunting honeybees in the title story of a collection by her that opens with a long (*) list of instructions warning a "Girl" not to become a "slut." In one of her novels, the narrator is torn between friendships with Gwen and the Red Girl before she leaves the island whose tourism this author critiqued in "A Small Place." For 10 points, name this allegedly "angry" author of See Now Then, At the Bottom of the River and Annie John.
In one novel by this author, a girl who conflates Percy the Chick's fall with Paradise Lost after she is forced to copy it out has a son who plays with "shy Myrmidons."
Jamaica Kincaid [or Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson]