You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks, 9780393308662
Paperback
"A profoundly poignant yet triumphant book, a recreation by an Alabama-born black of her struggle against racism and poverty while striving for the common dream of Americans… . {A} marvelously earthy ‘narrative.’… Her memoir is the stuff of human pride made memorable in raw, homely vernacul…

You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks

the narrative of sara brooks

  • Paperback

    228 pages

  • Release Date

    18 June 1992

Summary

The daughter of a freeholder, Sara Brooks was born in 1911 on her parents’ subsistence farm in west Alabama. Here in her own words, she makes us understand what it felt like to be young, black, innocent, and steeped in the ways of a black rural world that has largely been lost to us.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780393308662
ISBN-10:0393308669
Author:Sara Brooks
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Imprint:WW Norton & Co
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:228
Release Date:18 June 1992
Weight:290g
Dimensions:17mm x 140mm x 209mm
About The Author

Sara Brooks

Sara Brooks was the daughter of a freeholder born in 1911 on her parents’ subsistence farm in west Alabama. Thordis Simonsen is a writer, visual artist, and speaker who lives in Denver, Colorado, and Elika, Greece. Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist and writer who has spent his life doing documentary work. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

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