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

      by Susan Straight
      Published
      Jun 1992
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      Literary Literary
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      368
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      Rio Seco, California

      About This Book

      "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.

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      General Fiction

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      Jul 1993 Anchor ISBN13 9780385470124 ISBN10 0385470126
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      First Edition Jun 1992 Hyperion ISBN13 9781562829636 ISBN10 1562829637
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