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Running Back to Ludie

by Angela Johnson · 2001

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The narrator of a collection of bittersweet verses lives with her father and aunt, but will soon visit the mother she has not seen in years and rediscover how it feels to be her mother's daughter.

Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thismother daughtermother daughterMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 48 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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