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"I need you to understand how ordinary it all was. . . ." In the turbulent southern summer of 1963, Millwood's white population steers clear of "Shake Rag," the black section of town. Young Florence Forrest is one of the few who crosses the line. The daughter of a burial insurance... read more
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About the author Meet Minrose Gwin
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About the book On Writing The Queen of Palmyra
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The one who tells the story gets to say who’s bad and who’s good. Then the story rises up and puts on its clothes and goes out into the world.
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When words splash out, they are gone forever. You can’t catch pieces of water in your hands and hold onto them. They run through your fingers and splatter where they will.
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Mama said the devil’s food with angel icing should be a lesson to me about how both bad and good could look pretty and taste sweet. How they could get so mixed up, each with the other, that sometimes you couldn’t tell which was which. What a danger those kinds were.
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I don’t have much truck with love. It was not love that brought me over the dark water. It was something else. Something that didn’t give way. Something that held. Mimi and Grandpops and Zenie and Ray and Eva had that something; Mama didn’t.
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What I know now is that seeing and even hearing can confound you. Not smell. Smell is true. A body has to smell
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(It’s easy for the woman I am now to see the girl I was then. Not so easy to know who rides the space between us, the in-between one this story is coming from.)
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- Tougaloo College: Historically African-American liberal arts college in Jackson, Mississippi
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I need you to understand how normal it all was.
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- Minrose Gwin (Author)
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- Dewey: 813.6
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