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paperback
384pp
published, 1968

FULL TITLE:
Coming of Age: the Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in The rural South

Cover photo shown is from the February 2004 paperback edition.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story — the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties an fifties — and to have survived with pride and courage intact.

In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidily reveals the soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a touchstone work: an accurate, authoritative portrait of black family life in the rural South and a moving account of a woman's indomitable heart.

RELEASE NOTES:

planter on sidewalk in front, inside ziploc bag