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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston, Genevieve West, Tayari Jones · Booklabria

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Zora Neale Hurston, Genevieve West, Tayari Jones
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Short StoriesAfrican Americans

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Name: Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Author: Zora Neale Hurston, Genevieve West, Tayari Jones

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First published: 2020
Language: English
Editions: 9

Synopsis

In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.

Subjects: Short Stories
African Americans
New york
African American
African American, Women
African American fiction

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