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Virginia Primitive

Name: Virginia Primitive
Author: Sallie Reynolds

Auteur: Sallie Reynolds

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Sallie Reynolds

Engels
Paperback
9781478700791
13 januari 2014
204 pagina's

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"Do something, Lila. Make the child be reasonable." "Time to settle," she always says to Mother. "Chirruns need time to settle their feelins." In the racist South of the 1940s, a white child, Sally, dreams of having a happy family. Sparked by her desire to belong, she shares forbidden activities to fill the empty spaces in her heart. Her parents' alcoholism, neglect, and lack of a strong family bond lead her to create her own prohibited family. But will this choice lead to divisions too deep and far-reaching ever to heal? "My gramamma tell me, 'You comin back to me one day, don't you worry. I done writ yo name on the black hen's egg.' 'What's the black hen's egg?' 'A way the old folks had of bindin you to em forever, honey. For ever ' " Virginia Primitive is a semi-autobiographical novel from acclaimed author Sallie Reynolds. Writing just the way the child Sally heard the vernacular of her family and friends, the grown-up Reynolds artfully shapes each word to reflect her conflicted youth in 1940s Virginia and her attempts to return and redeem. Virginia Primitive is a powerful remembrance of lifelong struggle and love. This book is a blending of two lives over two eras, and is told by the narrator as a child and as an adult 40 years later. It is set in Virginia at the very end of the "Old South," when the black "help" did the parenting and house- and yard-work of many white families, and where pain and lies were never acknowledged. Raised half in one world, half in the other, the narrator struggles as a child to establish a base of love and identity. Later, as an adult in New York, she realizes that she is still living a lie, and that the only person she'd really loved in her childhood was a black woman named Lila who'd given her affection and hope. She goes back and finds the same sassy, tough Lila she remembered. But old, poor, and alone. In Virginia Primitive, as the narrator tells four stories, the child's and the adult's and the black's and t

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 13 januari 2014
Aantal pagina's: 204
Illustraties: Met illustraties

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Hoofdauteur: Sallie Reynolds
Hoofduitgeverij: Outskirts Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 12 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 12 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 304 g

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EAN: 9781478700791

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