Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham
Beyond the cotton fields of her small sharecropping community, Ludelphia discovers a world she never imagined, but there's also danger lurking for a young girl on her own. Beyond the log cabins, orange dirt, and cotton fields of her small sharecropping community, Ludelphia discovers a world she could never have imagined.Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham shows that a rural black farming community may be poor in possessions but is still rich in what matters most: courage, loyalty, and love
* Huntsville Times *Ludelphia Bennett reaffirms the human spirit and defines survival in this beautifully stitched quilt of a novel.
* author of A Season of Gifts *The story soars due to Latham’s lovely prose and Ludelphia Bennett, its wonderfully spunky heroine.
* Atlanta Journal-Constitution *The daughter of a seamstress, IRENE LATHAM lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Since Leaving Gee's Bend was first released in 2010, she has given hundreds of presentations about Gee's Bend, its history, art, and people. Winner of the 2016 International Literacy Association-Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award, she is passionate about helping others write their poems and stories. For curriculum connections and additional information, please visit irenelatham.com.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781588383327 |
| ISBN 10 | 1588383326 |
| Title | Leaving Gee's Bend |
| Author | Irene Latham |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
| Year published | 2017-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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