Leaving Pipe Shop
Memories of Kin
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Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7453553M
- ISBN-139780393318432
- ISBN-100393318435
- OCLC Control Number40148166
- Library of Congress Control Number96048173
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2585690
- Goodreads1630203
Classifications
- LCCF334.B5M38 1997
- DDC976.1/78
- LCCF334.B5 M38 1996
Description
"Steeped in the lively cadences of black speech and the art of storytelling, Leaving Pipe Shop is one woman's reclamation of her family's history and ultimately her own. Clear-eyed, yet with feeling and delicacy, Deborah E. McDowell offers this moving and textured meditation on the ties of kin and the claims of memory.". "More than a simple coming-of-age story, Leaving Pipe Shop is an evocation of growing up black in the South on the eve of the tumultuous sixties, a portrait of a culture in transition, of a Southern world in the throes of political and economic change. Here is the debut of a rich and powerful voice in American memoir."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
You got to come home.
Excerpt
You got to come home.
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