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Critic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection "the family as a living mystery." She selected nineteen stories and twelve poems by some of this century's leading black authors that oblige the reader to observe the complexities of the family in new and provocative ways.… (more)
For my sisters and brothers Beverly Washington Wilson Myrna Washington David Washington Byron Washington Tommy Washington Betty Ann Washington Bernadette Washington
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I once told a friend that families were like minefields, that we walk and dance through them never knowing where or when something or someone is going to explode.
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After her visit with Da-duh, the granddaughter, like Dave Tappen, tries to recapture black folk life in her art, but her efforts to paint are thwarted by the jarring noises from the factory below, suggesting that reconciliation with a distant cultural past is not so easily achieved.
Critic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection "the family as a living mystery." She selected nineteen stories and twelve poems by some of this century's leading black authors that oblige the reader to observe the complexities of the family in new and provocative ways.
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