Coming of Age in Mississippi

✍ Scribed by Moody, Anne

• Book ID: 108136272
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 273 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307803580

✦ Synopsis

Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story--the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties an fifties--and to have survived with pride and courage intact.

In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidily reveals the soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a touchstone work: an accurate, authoritative portrait of black family life in the rural South and a moving account of a woman's indomitable heart.

From the Paperback edition.