Gumbo by Harris, E. Lynn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page TITLE PAGE Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE HURSTON/WRIGHT FOUNDATION NOTE FROM E. LYNN HARRIS NOTE FROM MARITA GOLDEN FAMILY TREE • •

The Dew Breaker FROM Erasure FROM RL's Dream FROM The Harris Men The Boy-Fish The Way I See It (FROM A Day Late and a Dollar Short) FROM Pride FROM What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day Mourning Glo FROM These Same Long Bones Your Child Can Be a Model! FROM Song of the Water Saints Miss Prissy and the Penitentiary Luminous Days FROM Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven Sonny-Boy (FROM Pictures of a Dying Man ) FROM Water Marked FROM October Suite Like Trees, Walking Weight FROM Thieves' Paradise FROM P. G. County

THIS I KNOW IS TRUE • •

My Heavenly Father Lion's Blood The Knowing Luscious (FROM Loving Donovan) FROM Crawfish Dreams Press and Curl I Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout Birthin' No Babies (FROM The River Where Blood Is Born) Draggin' the Dog Museum Guide (FROM Black Girl in Paris) School (FROM Miss Black America) Ghost Story (FROM Slapboxing with Jesus) Clarity My Mama, Your Mama (FROM Imani All Mine) FROM Rails Under My Back FROM Dakota Grand

LOVE JONES • •

The Dinner Party Meeting Frederick (FROM Douglass's Women) Eva and Isaiah (FROM Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do) FROM Discretion An Orange Line Train to Ballston Lucielia Louise Turner (FROM The Women of Brewster Place) Fortune $100 and Nothing! Are You Experienced? Group Solo Love FROM Breathing Room Love (FROM Drop) Antiquated Desires FROM Rest for the Weary FROM Church Folk FROM Commitment Black and Boo

INCOGNITO • •

Rossonian Days Helter Skelter Here Summer Comes Later The Bulging Bag FROM Sap Rising Fire: An Origin Tale Tan Son Nhut Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, 1997 (FROM The Land South of the Clouds) Between Black and White Hincty (FROM The Chosen People) To Haiti or To Hell Mirror Image FROM What You Owe Me Will Not Be Televised Fear of Floating FROM The Queen of Harlem My Girl Mona

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