This child's gonna live
earliest edition we have, 1969 The Feminist Press, 2002 310 pages
Contemporary classics by women
"Set in a fishing village on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the early 1930s, This Child's Gonna Live tells the story of Mariah Upshur, the wife of a poor oysterman, and her struggles to keep her land and family together amidst the harsh realities of rural African American life. Described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as having a "sharp, idiomatic rhythm that is reminiscent of the work of Zora Neale Hurston," Wright's elo...
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