| I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots Contributor(s): Straight, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1497679982 ISBN-13: 9781497679986 Publisher: Open Road Media OUR PRICE: $18.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | African American - Historical - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 5.25" W x 8" (1.31 lbs) 524 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Straight, Susan: - 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. |