This child's gonna live

Sarah E. Wright

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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This Child's Gonna Live edition · 2012 · Feminist Press at The City University of New York · 332 pages · 9781306434386
This Child's Gonna Live edition · 2002 · Feminist Press at The City University of New York · 320 pages · 9781558617261
This child's gonna live edition · 2002 · The Feminist Press · 310 pages
This child's gonna live. edition · 1988 · Paladin Grafton · 254 pages
This child's gonna live edition · 1986 · The Feminist Press · 286 pages
This child's gonna live edition · 1969 · Calder& Boyars · 276 pages

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