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Cora's Kitchen (Inanna Poetry & Fiction) - Softcover

Brown, Kimberly Garrett

 
9781771338516: Cora's Kitchen (Inanna Poetry & Fiction)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1771338512 ISBN 13: 9781771338516
Verlag: Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2022

Inhaltsangabe

It is 1928 and Cora James, a 35-year-old Black librarian who works at the 135th Street library in Harlem, writes Langston Hughes a letter after identifying with one of his poems. She even reveals her secret desire to write. Langston responds, encouraging Cora to enter a writing contest sponsored by the National Urban League, and ignites her dream of being a writer. Cora is frustrated with the writing process, and her willingness to help her cousin Agnes keep her job after she is brutally beaten by her husband lands Cora in a white woman's kitchen working as a cook.

In the Fitzgerald home, Cora discovers she has time to write and brings her notebook to work. When she comforts Mrs. Fitzgerald after an argument with Mr. Fitzgerald, a friendship forms. Mrs. Fitzgerald insists Cora call her Eleanor and gives her The Awakening by Kate Chopin to read. Cora is inspired by the conversation to write a story and sends it to Langston. Eventually she begins to question her life and marriage and starts to write another story about a woman's sense of self. Through a series of letters, and startling developments in her dealings with the white family, Cora's journey to becoming a writer takes her to the brink of losing everything, including her life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kimberly Garrett Brown is the founder and editor of a women's literary press, Minerva Rising. Her work has been published in numerous publications including Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Black Lives Have Always Mattered: A collection of essays, poems and personal narratives, The Feminine Collective, and the Chicago Tribune. She currently lives in Tampa, Florida. Cora's Kitchen is her debut novel.

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Verlag
Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1771338512
ISBN 13 
9781771338516
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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