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Her fictional heroines can name every indignity they've been subjected to since birth, and because they are usually bright young women from troubled families in poor island backwaters such as Antigua or Dominica, their list of injuries is long.
There's the messed-up sexuality of Antigua, the way girls are taught to be virgins while boys are encouraged to be careless and promiscuous; Kincaid's heroines have suffered from this sick training, and here we watch it slowly kill her brother.
But the heroines are actually insecure, weak, and define themselves in terms of men.
As she tries to decipher the convoluted course of her Central American adventure, Elena McMahon, "not one of those who saw in a flash how every moment could connect," discovers memory and imagination--faculties that Didion's previous heroines did their best to deny.
Her heroines were restless Midwestern females absurdly full of optimism and fatally drawn to exoticism, which presented itself in the form of an unreliable Egyptian.