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A Woman Named Solitude

Like Last of the Just, which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslavement and humiliation, and survival — and produces one of the most extraordinary heroines in black literature.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 179 pages

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