Steeped in the lively cadence of black speech and the art of storytelling, Leaving Pipe Shop is one woman's reclamation of her family's history and ultimately her own. Clear-eyed, yet with feeling a delicacy, Deborah E. McDowell offers this moving and textured meditation on the ties of kin and the claims of memory...
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