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Bone Black
memories of girlhood
By Hooks, Bell
- ISBN
- 978-0-80504-145-3
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 1997
YA This treasure box of memories presents 61 snapshot vignettes of two-to-three pages in length of the author growing up in a southern town as an African-American rebel in a family of six girls and one boy. Memories flow chronologically and reveal hooks's growing awareness of the world around her and her role in it. She fits these experiences, dreams, and fantasies together to help explain how she came to be the writer and woman she is today. Sometimes these episodes are told in the fir...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
