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Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
Bebe Moore Campbell · 1992 · 332 pages
The author of Sweet Summer turns her talents to fiction with a novel that records how a racist beating in a small Mississippi town rippled through generations, changing forever the lives of everyone involved in the incident. 12,500 first printing.
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Hanif Abdurraqib
“There are Black writers who, at some point in their career, have taken a story (or stories) of Black death and attempted to make sense of the injustice attached to the grief or frustration. Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine worked wonders for me as a young reader (about 14 years old when I read it) because of how delicately it treats death… This was the first book I saw that allowed death to echo – to really show how it weaves into the lives left behind.”↗