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Original Title:	I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
ISBN:	0385470126 (ISBN13: 9780385470124)
Edition Language:	English

I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

Susan Straight

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 610 Users | 66 Reviews

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Title	:	I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
Author	:	Susan Straight
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	July 15th 1993 by Anchor (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. African American. Historical. Historical Fiction. Adult Fiction

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Beginning in the late 1950s, this novel tells the story of Marietta Cook, a tall girl growing up in Pine Gardens, a Gullah-speaking village in South Carolina. When Marietta's mother dies, she heads to Charleston in search of her uncle - only to find a lover and return pregnant with twins two years later. She raises her sons back home in the low country before moving the family to Charleston, where she takes a growing interest in football and the civil rights movement. The boys grow huge and talented at the game, playing pro football in California. A new world and new travails await, but Marietta's great resilience endures.

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Ratings: 4.1 From 610 Users | 66 Reviews

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susan straight is one of my absolute favorite authors. every single book of hers is amazing and will take you to places (i'm thinking that ..) you've never been. if i told you the plot, it wouldn't even begin to do it justice - just read it!

I was really intrigued by this book because I wasn't really sure where it was headed. It meandered here, it meandered there, there were sorrows, there were joys, failures and successes. An interesting tale of a woman finding herself, long after she is a grown woman and helping others on the way to finding themselves.

This is my second? third? Susan Straight novel. When I finally took a second to look at the back flap author blurb, you could have punched in the face I was so shocked. She's ...white.... Does...does she live in an all Black neighborhood? Black hubbie? Anywho, this book is pretty good. If it weren't for having to re-read the Gullah parts, it's almost as good as Blacker than a Thousand Midnights. The best part is that, although a white woman writing this, this isn't some "poor black people



It took me a few hours to read the last dozen pages. I did not want this story to end. In truth, it doesn't feel like it ended, more like real life going on without me. I did not see it coming. I did not mind that a substantial section involved sport. I rooted for the characters but loved them like my own people. Despite failures and disappointments and error and loss, this is a hopeful novel at a time when hope is much-needed. People do the best they can with what they have. They make mistakes.

Looks like someone else is a fan of Zora! So I, naturally, had to pick this book up."I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. - Zora Neale Hurston Straight, with yet another book in dialect - this time in Gullah, spoken in the South Carolinas and sea islands; and, even though I speak French fluently and understand Creole French, I can't say if it's all right in this book. I can

There is a scene in this book that comes back to me often. The main character, an African-American woman from the rural south has her son and his wife over for dinner. He's a successful football player and she thinks he's getting uppity and aims to teach him a lesson about humility. She invites them over for dinner and feeds them a poor southern folk's meal: greens and beans. His wife, who grew up in the projects in L.A., reciprocates by inviting the mom over for something called "red dinner."