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 Roots
Alex Haley
Amazon's Notes:
This "bold . . . extraordinary . . . blockbuster . . ." (Newsweek)
begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of
a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information
Agency, and an author. The author is Alex Haley
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The Stone Angel
Margaret Laurence
Amazon's Notes:
Hagar Shipley, age 90, tells the story of her life, and in so doing tries
to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present,
she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and
later as a grieving mother.
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 Before Women Had Wings
Connie May Fowler
Amazon's Notes:
Raised in an atmosphere of poverty and violence, 6-year-old Avocet Abigail
Jackson, or Bird as she's called, is wise beyond her years. After falling to abuse by her alcoholic parents and
the destructive upheaval of moving from one flop house to the next, her one solace is Jesus, whom she fantasizes
as a possible suitor. While her older sister discovers romance with a local boy, Bird discovers Miss Zora, a mysterious
black woman who lives alone in a cottage near Bird's school and comes to teach the little girl about dignity and
her own capacity for forgiveness.
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