I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

Susan Straight

Musical, haunting dialogue and voice. Straight's best work. The story of a Gullah girl as she grows...more

Musical, haunting dialogue and voice. Straight's best work. The story of a Gullah girl as she grows to womanhood and her life as a mother of twin boys, of her commitment to retaining her quiet dignity and self-sufficiency in the face of great personal loss and the racism of the South in the 1960's. Marietta is a character of reaching across the boundaries of cultures, authentic and memorable. An exceptional novel.   hide

took me forever to read because of the language, but turned out to be pretty good.

hard to learn the dialect, but was a really good book.

Loved it!