Unafraid of the Dark
A Memoir
In her deeply affecting, vividly written memoir, Rosemary L. Bray describes with remarkable frankness growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s, and her childhood shaped by welfare, the Roman Catholic Church, and the civil rights movement.Bray writes poignantly of her lasting dread of the cold and the dark that characterized her years of poverty; of her mother's extraordinary strength and resourcefulness; and of the system that miraculously enabled her mother to scrape together enough to keep the children fed and clothed. Bray's parents, held together by their ambitions for their children and painfully divided by their poverty, punctuate young…
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- ISBN: 978-0-385-49475-5
- EAN: 9780385494755
- Produktnummer: 9542110
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Über den Autor
Rosemary L. Bray is a writer and former editor for The New York Times Book Review, Essence, The Wall Street Journal, and Ms. , as well as the author of a children's book, Martin Luther King. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.
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