The Tale of The Magic Okra Seeds: How Gumbo Came From Africa - Softcover

Washington, Kaye

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425943098 ISBN 13: 9781425943097

Publisher: Authorhouse, 2007

Synopsis

A young father takes a break from tending the family garden with his son to tell the boy a story. In relating a tale brushed with a stroke of family lore, the father takes the two of them back centuries-to the West Coast of Africa-to a captured boy's Transatlantic journey on a slave ship with an okra pod in the fold of his body cloth-to the Caribbean and the West-to places where only love, strength and courage may voyage...

About this title

About the Author:

Kaye Washington holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall, 1981). After a career as a trial lawyer, Ms. Washington picked up a different kind of pen. Her Okra story, as she refers to it, is a product of that different pen. Ms. Washington was born in Detroit, Michigan, the 10th child of 15 children. Her formal education also includes the University of Michigan (Class of 1973) and the Detroit Public Schools. Ms. Washington resides in California. The Tale of the Magic Okra Seeds: How Gumbo Came From Africa is her first published work of fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1425943098
• ISBN 13: 9781425943097
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60