Louise Meriwether

• Dec-1983
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Told from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl, this popular novel documents the disintergration of a black family in Harlem in the 1930s. A compelling, readable, occasionally funny work, it vividly illuminates the life of the ghetto, not just the d...

• Feb-1994
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Fragments of the Ark follows the exploits of runaway slave Peter Mango, his family, and a band of fellow escaped slaves as they commandeer a Confederate gunboat out of Charleston harbor and deliver it to the Union navy. Mango is made captain of this ...

• Aug-2000
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Acclaimed author of Daddy Was a Numbers Runner and the historical novel Fragments of the Ark, Louise Meriwether now gives us this resonant and revealing contemporary story about the struggle to love in the shadow of our fears. . .

A successfu...

• Dec-2002
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This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem -- with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly).   Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin a...