Invites us to accompany the author on a seed-gathering trek in the Himalaya. This is a memoir from one of the most distinctive voices.

And Kincaid, whose novels are passionately intimate with colonialism, is too honest a writer not to explore the irony of her status as memsahib with Sherpas and bearers - and to understand that the liberating, exotic pleasures of travel are inextricably intertwined with the everyday pleasures of home and family. A wonderful blend of introspective insight and beautifully rendered description, "Among Flowers" is a seriously entertaining, thoroughly engaging, and characteristically frank memoir from one of the most distinctive and striking voices writing today.