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I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots: A Novel

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I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots: A Novel

A historic novel about a young woman forced to grow up quickly, and whose lifeâ€”as well as those of her twin sonsâ€”changes with the current of the times

Beginning in the late 1950s, this novel tells the story of Marietta Cook, a tall girl growing up in Pine Gardens, a Gullah-speaking village in South Carolina. When Mariettaâ€™s mother passes, she heads to Charleston in search of her uncleâ€”only to find a lover and return pregnant with twins two years later. She raises her sons back home in the low country before moving the family to Charleston, where she takes a growing interest in football and the civil rights movement. The boys grow huge and talented at the game, playing pro football in California. A new world and new travails await, but Mariettaâ€™s great resilience endures.

This is the life of an extraordinary soul, and a novel with a beautifully vivid sense of place.

Country	USA
Author	Susan Straight
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reissue
EISBN	9781480410954
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Open Road Media
Manufacturer	Open Road Media
NumberOfPages	526
PublicationDate	2013-08-06
Publisher	Open Road Media
ReleaseDate	2013-08-06
Studio	Open Road Media

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