02074cam a2200373 i 4500 1164812255 TxAuBib 20200130120000.0 200102s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062915795 hardcover 0062915797 hardcover (OCoLC)1134612047 NjBwBT eng rda FMG FMG LE@ OI6 OCLCQ OCO NBO UOK TxAuBib rda Hurston, Zora Neale, author Sweat. Short stories Selections. Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance / Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; introduction by Genevieve West. First edition. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] ©2020. xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250). John Redding goes to sea -- The conversion of Sam -- A bit of our Harlem -- Drenched in light -- Spunk -- Magnolia flower -- Black death -- The bone of contention -- Muttsy -- Sweat -- Under the bridge -- 'Possum or pig? -- The Eatonville anthology -- Book of Harlem -- The book of Harlem -- The back room -- Monkey junk -- The country in the woman -- The gilded six-bits -- She rock -- The fire and the cloud. In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems. 20200130. African Americans Fiction. Short stories. Harlem (New York, N.Y) Fiction. West, Margaret Genevieve, writer of introduction. Jones, Tayari, writer of foreword. TXKIP