I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
Author: Susan Straight
Desc: 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.