What is the setting of Girl by Jamaica Kincaid?

Although there are no descriptive passages in "Girl," there are several clues to the story's Caribbean setting in the mother's instructions. In the first lines, for example, the mother mentions putting laundry "on the stone heap" and "on the clothesline to dry," indicating a way of life without electrical appliances. Later, she tells "how you make ends meet," again indicating relative poverty. The foods she mentions help place the story in the Caribbean: pumpkin fritters, salt fish, okra, dasheen (also called taro, a tropical starchy root), bread pudding, and pepper pot. Kincaid grew up on the island of Antigua, in a home without electricity or running water, and although she does not name the place, in her mind it is set there.