Ross Raymond Nunamaker

Girl is flash fiction by Jamaica Kincaid comprised of one 400ish word sentence.

The Caribbean setting is indicated by calypso music and khaki clothing. The story is about a mother instructing her daughter how to behave and become a good woman.

It is a stream of instructions interrupted by the girl only a few times.

The diatribe of the mother demonstrates her beliefs and fears of life and for her daughter. It also exposes societal positions and roles in society.

It does a lot of work in one sentence, albeit, a rather long one.

I like the rambling interiority and find it to be fun as the reader assesses the reliability of the narrator.