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Rattlebone
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Rattlebone (1994) (edit title/settings)

by Maxine Clair (Author) (edit contributors)

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Set in the fictional town of Rattlebone, Kansas, in the 1950s, these eleven interrelated stories reveal the emotional, financial, and social conflicts that govern the lives of the African Americans who live there. Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award. Author reading tour.

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  • “When she was sixteen-going-on-twenty, and I was fourteen-back-pedaling-to-twelve, for no apparent reason Wanda suddenly stopped letting me read her diary.”

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"We heard it from our friends, who got it from their near-eye-witness grandmothers and their must-be-psychic neighbor ladies, that when she was our same age, our teacher, Miss October Brown, watched her father fire through his rage right on into her mother's heart."

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  1. Maxine Clair (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0374247161
Page Count: 213

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