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

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480410879

<DIV><DIV><B>A historic novel about a young woman forced to grow up quickly, and whose life&mdash;as well as those of her twin sons&mdash;changes with the current of the times</B></DIV></DIV><BR /> 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 Marietta&rsquo;s mother passes, she heads to Charleston in search of her uncle&mdash;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 Marietta&rsquo;s great resilience endures.<BR /><BR /> This is the life of an extraordinary soul, and a novel with a beautifully vivid sense of place.<BR />