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Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women

This book combines in one volume two now classic short story collections. The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material.

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"Mary Helen Washington has had a greater impact upon the formation of the canon of Afro-American literature than has any other scholar." —The New York Times Book Review

Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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