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A review by amyw2
Blackberries, Blackberries by Crystal Wilkinson
5.0
I thoroughly enjoyed this classic collection of short stories about the lives of black, country women first published over two decades ago and which is as relevant and meaningful today as when it was first written. It is a joy to read
The author, a former poet laureate of the state of Kentucky, deftly shapes portraits of African-American women living everyday lives in the small towns and dusty hollers of rural Appalachia. Be they old or young, well-off or not so well-off, vivacious or demure, her characters are so finely drawn that they are recognizable even to those of us who have never walked the back roads of Kentucky.
I read the 2017 University Press of Kentucky edition, which contains a forward by poet Nikky Finney, and an insightful afterword by Honoree Fannone Jeffers, and which I recommend.
The author, a former poet laureate of the state of Kentucky, deftly shapes portraits of African-American women living everyday lives in the small towns and dusty hollers of rural Appalachia. Be they old or young, well-off or not so well-off, vivacious or demure, her characters are so finely drawn that they are recognizable even to those of us who have never walked the back roads of Kentucky.
I read the 2017 University Press of Kentucky edition, which contains a forward by poet Nikky Finney, and an insightful afterword by Honoree Fannone Jeffers, and which I recommend.