In the Country of Women: A Memoir
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HighBridge 2019
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Unabridged
ISBN:
9781684575862
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In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close-knit Sims family, Straight-and eventually her three daughters-heard for decades the stories of Dwayne's female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post-slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men. Susan's family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward-from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California. A Pakistani word, biraderi, is one Straight uses to define a complex system of kinship and clan-those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters. Of her three girls, Straight writes, "The daughters of our ancestors carry in their blood at least three continents. We are not about borders. We are about love and survival."
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Susan Straight. (2019). In the Country of Women: A Memoir. Unabridged HighBridge.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Susan Straight. 2019. In the Country of Women: A Memoir. HighBridge.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Susan Straight, In the Country of Women: A Memoir. HighBridge, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Susan Straight. In the Country of Women: A Memoir. Unabridged HighBridge, 2019.
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