
ISBN: 9780553279375
ISBN10: 0553279378
Publisher: Bantam Books
Publish Date: 1993-November printing
Edition: Reissue
Pages: 304
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 35.00 L x 22.50 W x 5.00 H
Weight: 1.75 lbs
COMMENTS: Cover differs from that shown. Very good condition.
First Line:
""What you looking at me for?/I didn't come to stay..." I hadn't so much forgot as I couldn't bring myself to remember. Other things were more important."
Description:
The moving and beautiful autobiography of a talented black woman. ". . . I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood . . . have I found myself so moved . . . Her portrait is a Biblical study of life in the midst of death".--James Baldwin.
11 years public high school. 2 years Catholic 7th grade English. 1 year American School in Mexico. 2 years adjunct English/Composition teacher online and tech-based campus. 2 years university ENG 101 teacher. 10 years working in Mexico with rural & city youth.