I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Straight, Susan

I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781497679986)

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I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Straight, Susan

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

$20.99
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Straight, Susan

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

$20.99
Format: Paperback
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In this "miraculous" novel by the author of Highwire Moon, a Lowcountry woman finds her place in the world during the Civil Rights era (USA Today).

In 1959, thirteen-year-old Marietta Cook is as tall as she is reserved, a quiet outsider in an already marginalized community of slave descendants rooted in South Carolina's low country. While she and her ailing mother eke out a modest existence selling hand-woven baskets by the side of the road, Marietta often wonders what lies beyond their horizon.

When her mother passes, young Marietta makes her way to Charleston in search of her uncle. What she finds is a nation in turmoil, with the rights of all citizens at stake. Drawn into the wider world of a national movement, Marietta experiences new pleasures, heartbreak, and the uncertainties, as well as joys, of motherhood. As she watches her twins mature into gifted and successful athletes, Marietta comes to appreciate her own gifts in a long life well lived.

A moving portrayal of one woman's life, USA Today called it "miraculous in its astonishing richness of detail, its emotional honesty, and its breadth of human thought and feeling." Robert Kirsch Award winner Susan Straight has written an "elegantly constructed" novel with a beautifully vivid sense of place (Publishers Weekly).

Author: Susan Straight
ISBN-10: 1497679982
ISBN-13: 9781497679986
Publisher: Open Road Media
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2014
Pages: 524
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.17d
By Susan Straight
By Susan Straight
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Susan Straight has published eight novels. Her most recent, Between Heaven and Here, is the final book in the Rio Seco trilogy. Take One Candle Light a Room was named one of the best books of 2010 by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Kirkus Reviews, and A Million Nightingales was a finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her novel Highwire Moon was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. "The Golden Gopher" won the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Story. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Harper's, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the Believer, Zoetrope: All-Story, Black Clock, and elsewhere. Straight has been awarded the Lannan Prize for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. She is distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. She was born in Riverside, California, where she lives with her family, whose history is featured on susanstraight.com.

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