![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, years later, as a high school junior taking honors history, she oddly has not even heard of the New Deal. Only Joan’s chapters are written in the first person, and even as a 10-year-old girl, she expresses herself in a manner more akin to an adult. Still, there is some discordance in the book’s logic. There is the sense that these women are familiar to Stringfellow, who, after years of living abroad (Okinawa, Ghana, Cuba, Spain, Italy), has, literally and figuratively, returned home. Given the novel’s setting, the reader will surely anticipate systemic racism, but even so may be caught off guard by scenes in the book.Yet Memphis is far from joyless, conveying a world where blithe gratification is garnered through traditional women’s work - seamstressing, hairdressing, nursing - as well as through less conventional pursuits, as with the 1960s Black female radicals who find a welcome space for strategizing on Hazel’s porch. ![]()
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