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Susan Straight
Full Series List in Order
Rio Seco, California
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots (Jun-1992)Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights (Jun-1994)
The Gettin' Place (Jun-1996)
Highwire Moon (Oct-2002)
Friskative Dog (Mar-2007)
Aquaboogie (May-2007)
Take One Candle Light a Room (Oct-2010)
Between Heaven and Here (Sep-2012)
Book List in Order: 11 titles
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I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
- Jun-1992
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“Straight’s portrayal of a black woman’s life is nearly miraculous in its astonishing richness of detail, its emotional honesty and its breadth of human thought and feeling.” -- USA TodayEvoking the Gullah"speaking 1950s community of Pine ...
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Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights
- Jun-1994
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“A writer of exceptional gifts and grace.” -- Joyce Carol OatesA young fireman battles to provide for his family -- and struggles to avoid the traps of crime and poverty that surround him.A resident of impoverished Rio Seco, California, Darnell ...
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The Gettin' Place
- Jun-1996
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Acclaimed novelist Susan Straight returns to the fictional town of Rio Seco, California, in her most powerful book to date. Framed by two race riots -- the little-known Tulsa riots of the 1920s, in which white Tulsa burned down the town's black encla...
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Highwire Moon
- Oct-2002
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Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her back to Mexico -- without her three-year old daughter. Twelve years later, with a pair of silver barrettes her only tangible memory of Elvia, Serafina b...
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A Million Nightingales
- Apr-2006
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From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom. Daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew, Moinette is a house maid on a plantatio...
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Friskative Dog
- Mar-2007
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Sharron was five when her father gave her the Friskative Dog. And just like the best-loved toys from The Velveteen Rabbit, Sharron has made the Friskative Dog real through her love and devotion.Now Sharron is nine, and her father is missing, and the ...
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Aquaboogie
- May-2007
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“Aquaboogie is a love story in fragments . . . A book by a writer whose love for her characters infuses her work with the dignity and urgency they so clearly deserve.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewFull of defiance and tenderness, Aquaboogie ...
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Take One Candle Light a Room
- Oct-2010
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A luminous new novel about the forces that tear families apart and the ties that bind them together. Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her Southern California home. When she returns to mark the fift...
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Between Heaven and Here
- Sep-2012
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Glorette Picard is dead. Her body was found in the alley behind a taqueria, half-hidden by wild tobacco trees, but no one -- not Sidney, who knew she worked that alley, not her son Victor who memorizes SAT words to avoid the guys selling rock out of ...