Nancy Rawles

• Nov-1997
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In South Central Los Angeles in 1978, Grace Broussard, the youngest member of a Creole family transplanted from Louisiana, seeks to distance herself from her family through a ten point plan designed to shock them, but the ghost of her father interfer...

• Mar-2003
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For forty years Camille Broussard has cooked for other people. As a young bride she moved from Louisiana to Los Angeles and settled in the thriving community of Watts; but many of her hopes went up in the flames of the 1965 riots. Now it’s 1984--...

• Feb-2006
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A deeply moving recasting of one of the most controversial characters in American literature, Huckleberry Finn’s JimWritten in the great literary tradition of novels of American slavery, My Jim is told in the incantatory voice of Sadie Watson, an e...