Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

Joyce Carol Oates

416 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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At the heart of the story are two people, Iris Courtney, who is white, and handsome Jinx Fairchild, the black basketball player who, in protecting Iris, kills a white man.Iris is the only witness to the crime.The two of them are growing up in the ...

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