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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem RenaissanceFrom "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison) the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God a collection of remarkable stories, including eight "lost" Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. New York Times' Books to Watch for Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books of 2020 Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books Forbes. com's Most Anticipated Books of 2020 E 's Top 2020 Books to Read Glamour's Best

From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison)--the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God--a collection of remarkable stories, including eight "lost" Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.

New York Times' Books to Watch for
Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books
Forbes.com's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
E 's Top 2020 Books to Read
Glamour's Best Books

In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston--the sole black student at the college--was living in New York, "desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world." During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period.

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston's world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer's voice and her contributions to America's literary traditions.

--Cultured Vultures

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Amistad Press
Published: 01/14/2020
ISBN: 9780062915795
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2019 pg. 55
Booklist 12/15/2019 pg. 89
Publishers Weekly 01/13/2020
Shelf Awareness 02/07/2020
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