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Maud martha by gwendolyn brooks6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And the 'scraps of baffled hate' - a certain word from a saleswoman that visit to the cinema the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus- are always there. But her lighter-skinned husband has dreams too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. ![]() Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. It is one of my favorite depictions of how a woman comes to trust her eyes.' Raven Leilani 'The quotidian rises to an exquisite portraiture of black womanhood in the hands of one of America's most foundational writers.' Claudia Rankine 'Maud Martha reveals the poetry, power and splendor of an ordinary life.' Tayari Jones What, what, am I to do with all of this life? Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' Bernardine Evaristo 'Maud Martha finds beauty in the brutal formative moments that make us. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. ![]() The stunning only novel by the celebrated poet and first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize, introduced by Margo Jefferson. ![]()
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