Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance / Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; introduction by Genevieve West.

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Short stories. Selections
Main Author:	Hurston, Zora Neale (Author)
Other Authors:	West, Margaret Genevieve (Editor, Writer of introduction) Jones, Tayari (writer of foreword.)
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	African Americans > Fiction. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. FICTION / African American / Women. African Americans. New York (State) > New York > Harlem. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Short stories.
Genre:	Fiction. Domestic fiction. Short stories.
Physical Description:	xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm
Format:	Book

Description
Summary:	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.
Call Number:	PS3515.U789 A6 2020
Bibliography Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-250).
ISBN:	9780062915795 0062915797