First Mariner Books edition 2000
Copyright © 1991 by Connie Porter
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Porter, Connie Rose, date.
All-Bright Court / Connie Porter,
p. cm.
ISBN 0-395-53271-X
ISBN 0-618-05679-3 (pbk.)
I. Title.
PS3566.O6424A74 1991 91-8105
813'.54—dc20 CIP
eISBN 978-0-544-39120-8
v1.0714
The chapter “Hoodoo” has appeared in different form in The Southern Review and in Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction, edited by Terry McMillan (Viking Press, 1990).