Her: 2nd Edition - Softcover

Muhanji, Cherry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933216637 ISBN 13: 9780933216631

Publisher: Aunt Lute Books, 1990

Synopsis

A novel of Detroit in the late fifties and sixties explores the lives of the Black men and women who came north to work at the Ford Motor plant, and the relationships that develop between Black women

About this title

About the Author:

Cherry Muhanji received her Ph.D. in English, anthropology, and African American World Studies from the University of Iowa. She grew up in Detroit and worked as a telephone lineman until she started university at the age of 40. The first edition of Her received a Ferro-Grumley award. Muhanji presently teaches English and the history of jazz in Oregon.

From Library Journal:

A latecomer to writing, Muhanji speaks of a down-and-out life intensely observed. Set in the early 1960s, her first novel concerns Southern black women out of place in Detroit. Sunshine (alias Kali) is the pregnant "high-yellah" child Brother marries: "Momma's baby , Daddy's maybe ," in the words of her mother-in-law. She stares out the "marriage room" window, watching the day world turn at night into a prostitute-filled strip, familiar bodies hiding beneath strange garments. Muhanji gives us brief, sympathetic glimpses into more characters than can be kept track of, alternating between day and night, past and present. The lyrical, image-filled sentences are beautiful in themselves, but the sketchy narrative continually shifts focus, and only in the last 50 pages are connections made. Although temporarily engrossing, this ambitious book finally tries the reader's patience.
-Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0933216637
• ISBN 13: 9780933216631
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179