Unafraid of the Dark A Memoir

Name: Unafraid of the Dark A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780385494755

ISBN-10: 0385494750

ISBN-13: 9780385494755

Edition: N/A

Authors: Rosemary Bray, Rosemary Bray

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In her deeply affecting, vividly written memoir, Rosemary L. Bray describes with remarkable frankness growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s, and her childhood shaped by welfare, the Roman Catholic Church, and the civil rights movement. Bray writes poignantly of her lasting dread of the cold and the dark that characterized her years of poverty; of her mother's extraordinary strength and resourcefulness; and of the system that miraculously enabled her mother to scrape together enough to keep the children fed and clothed. Bray's parents, held together by their ambitions for their children and painfully divided by their poverty, punctuate young Rosemary's nights with their violent fights and…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Rosemary L. Bray is a writer and former editor forThe New York Times Book Review,Essence,The Wall Street Journal, andMs., as well as the author of a children's book,Martin Luther King. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.