Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick: stories from the Harlem Renaissance

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Hurston, Zora Neale
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In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.

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Hurston, Zora Neale.Bone of contention
Hurston, Zora Neale.John Redding goes to sea
Hurston, Zora Neale.Drenched in light
West, Margaret Genevieve,editor,writer of introduction
Hurston, Zora Neale.Conversion of Sam
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