Author

Publication

1990 - Times Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

61,500 words, Guess

Page Count

246 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads1604977
  • LibraryThing296217

Classifications

  • DDC973/.0496073022
  • LCCE185.96 .N54 1990

Description

With the passionate lyricism of a Maya Angelou and the sharply edged wit of a young Lillian Hellman, award-winning journalist Itabari Njeri creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of the extraordinary family in which she grew up., Njeri?s memoir is improbable, complex, grandly dramatic; from her grandmother Ruby, a West Indian matriarch with a devastating tongue and a reverence for Marcus Garvey and Queen Elizabeth, to her father, a brilliant Marxist historian, to her own travels to Georgia to track down the man who killed her grandfather, Every Good-bye Ain?t Gone is a passionate account of a woman finding herself in a world filled with obstacles, from racism to a surfeit of unreliable men.

Description

Presents portraits of the cultural life of middle-class African-Americans and transplanted West Indians in New York in the 50s and 60s.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography.

Other Editions

  • Every good-bye ain't gone: Family portraits and personal escapadesTimes Books1990-01-01

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