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Most Way Home

by Kevin Young · 1995

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Encompassing America's African-American landscape and rich oral histories of the South, this poetry collection centers on the concept of "home" and explores conflicts between black and white, North and South, ancestral and modern.

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adult
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short · 120 pages
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