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About Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories Of Kin
Product Description "McDowell captures the aspirations and realities of the working-class residents of Pipe Shop, infusing them with unshakable dignity, luminous grace, and profound compassion."―Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, San Francisco Chronicle In the illuminating language of memory, Deborah McDowell tells the story of her family, living a segregated life in Bessemer, Alabama, where her father worked at U.S. Foundry and Pipe, nicknamed Pipe Shop. Through the intimate details of their daily lives, she shows us how civil rights affected a working-class town, among three generations of women and men. McDowell movingly uncovers a world rarely portrayed, where she was raised to love the sounds and meanings of words and to value a place and culture that has passed. "What an eye McDowell has for important stories hidden in the everyday details, and what a good storyteller she is."―Tonya Bolden, Washington Post Book World "[McDowell] weaves the plainest drab cotton threads into a magic carpet."―Adele Logan Alexander, Women's Review of Books "Engrossing. . . . The author has a seductive way with words that makes Leaving Pipe Shop as good as a piece of sweet potato pie served after a plate of greens and fried chicken."― Boston Globe Illustrated Review Engrossing. . . . The author has a seductive way with words that makes Leaving Pipe Shop as good as a piece of sweet potato pie served after a plate of greens and fried chicken. -- Boston Globe Told in the illuminating language of memory, "Leaving Pipe Shop" is a stunning personal portrait of the author's upbringing in the pre-civil-rights South....With passion, eloquence, and humor, "Leaving Pipe Shop" transcends the confines of the written page, leaving us with a sense not only of a time, a place, and a culture that has passed, but moreover with a sense of the haunting yet rejuvenating power of what it means to go home. -- Richmond, Virginia Voice, 29 December 1998 [McDowell] weaves the plainest drab cotton threads into a magic carpet. -- Adele Logan Alexander, Women's Review of Books About the Author Deborah E. McDowell (Ph.D. Purdue), Co-Editor, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism. Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Founding editor of the Beacon Black Women Writers series; co-editor with Arnold Rampersad of Slavery of the Literary Imagination; author of "The Changing Same”: Studies in Fiction by Black Women; Leaving the Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; editor of Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun, Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood, and numerous articles and essays.
