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I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots - Paperback

by Susan Straight
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Availability:In StockContributor:Susan StraightPublish date:2019-10-22Pages:524
Language:EnglishPublisher:Counterpoint LLCISBN-13:9781640093638ISBN-10:164009363XUPC:9781640093638Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Coming of Age, Cultural HeritageBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 1.17 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC9GS9TJCM
"Straight's portrayal of a black woman's life is nearly miraculous in its astonishing richness of detail, its emotional honesty and its breadth of human thought and feeling." --USA Today

Evoking the Gullah-speaking 1950s community of Pine Gardens, South Carolina, I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots follows Marietta Cook, a maid with a growing interest in the civil rights movement, as she raises talented twin boys destined for pro football glory and comes to find peace in an often unjust world.

Imbued with extraordinary resilience and joy, Susan Straight's debut is a celebration of an extraordinary soul and a novel with a beautifully vivid sense of place.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Counterpoint LLCISBN-13:9781640093638ISBN-10:164009363XUPC:9781640093638Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Coming of Age, Cultural HeritageBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 1.17 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC9GS9TJCM
Susan Straight has published eight novels and a memoir, In the Country of Women. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and received the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the O. Henry Prize, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was born in Riverside, California, where she lives with her family.
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC

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