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Her Own Place

by Dori Sanders · 1993 · 256 pages

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"Somewhere in the first five pages of HER OWN PLACE the glow begins....And you begin to glow becuase it just feels so good."

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This is Mae Lee Barnes, story—from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood—and all stops in between, living the troubled, joyous, and indomitable life of a black matriarch during a time of change that will alter her life and her family's forever....

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Genre
historical fiction
Themes
african american
Setting
1990samerican southsouth carolina
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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