Her
by Cherry Muhanji
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A " Her is a novel whose words refuse to be constrained by the boundaries of its pages. Like jazz that reaches out to both heart and gut. . . . From a central core of strong women characters, Cherry Muhanji experiments and elaborates, playing variations, solos, and combinations up and down the register. Her creation is both eye-opening and sensual."-Erica Bauermeister, author of 500 Great Books by Women This rowdy, irreverent novel explores relationships among a community of black show more women-mothers and daughters, friends and lovers-who came to Detroit in the late 1950s to work the lines at the Ford Motor plant. show lessTags
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A very complex book about the women who live on John R Street. It is more about the relationships between these black women and men, whether as friends, family, or lovers it is always very human and very messy.
I read it twice, while taking part in proofreading the new printing, and it has some absolutely delectable prose. There were sentences and passages I could read over and over again, just to experience the taste as they rolled off my tongue.
I read it twice, while taking part in proofreading the new printing, and it has some absolutely delectable prose. There were sentences and passages I could read over and over again, just to experience the taste as they rolled off my tongue.
Fiction M952h 1990
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- Dedication
- To Jonathan Walton
who,
if he had lived,
would find this book more than interesting - First words
- Houses collect things: old newspapers, junk mail - Her. She had come under cover of night, a stowaway with Brother's child tucked in the bottom of her belly. He had stuck his Alabama dirt farmer finger in her Dee-troit urban-... (show all)ghetto Ford Motor Company hi-yellah hole and she had went from somewhere to nowhere, somehow. She understood somewhere. It had been up against her house, inside the 1959 DeSoto with the fluid drive, under a blanket at Belle Isle, even at the food of the Ambassador Bridge that spanned the Detroit River. -Chater 1
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.54
- Canonical LCC
- PS3563.U367
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, LGBTQ+, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3563 .U367 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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Statistics
- Members
- 84
- Popularity
- 377,726
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
