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A colorful memoir follows the unwilling return, after a twenty-year absence, of a black woman to her childhood neighborhood Pipe Shop, a working-class community outside of Birmingham where she finds herself confronting many memories of her youth. 20,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Deborah E. McDowell (Ph.D. Purdue), Co-Editor, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism. Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Founding editor of the Beacon Black Women Writers series; co-editor with Arnold Rampersad of Slavery of the Literary Imagination; author of "The Changing Same": Studies in Fiction by Black Women; Leaving the Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; editor of Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun, Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood, and numerous articles and essays.
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The author describes her return to her childhood neighborhood, where she finds herself confronting many memories of her youth.
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