Lucy
Fiction, from 1990: “I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you.”
"I was born on an island, a very small island, twelve miles long and eight miles wide; yet when I left it at nineteen years of age I had never set foot on three-quarters of it." Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy: a young woman arrives in America, inventing herself as she goes.