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James Hannaham
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Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta:
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"Hannaham won the 2016 Pen Faulkner for Delicious Foods, a novel that showcased his skill at whipsawing readers between hilarity and heartbreak while dramatizing the perils of living in a racist society. Now he keeps us on that same knife edge as he i"
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“Y'all think a body be who you is, but it ain't nothing but a motherfucking sack of meat.”
― Delicious Foods
― Delicious Foods
“A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn't literally keep you alive -- if anything, most often people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebody else's truth, so that they can continue the life they believe themselves to be leading, trying somehow to preserve the idea that they're good people in their small lives, despite their involvement, however indirect, with bigger evils.”
― Delicious Foods
― Delicious Foods
“She kept seeing brothers she would think was him from far away and then get close and be like Oh, can’t be him, he got hands.”
― Delicious Foods
― Delicious Foods
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| Book Nook Cafe: What I read in July 2011 | 163 | 93 | Aug 26, 2011 05:39PM | |
| 21st Century Lite...: The Rooster Prize | 9 | 94 | Apr 27, 2015 10:16PM | |
| The Book Club: Books and Authors in the Media 2015 | 12 | 27 | Jul 23, 2015 06:15PM | |
| A Million More Pages: Mini Read-a-Thon - July 17 to July 19! | 278 | 117 | Jul 24, 2015 06:17PM | |
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| Literary Fiction ...: Discussion: Delicious Foods | 107 | 109 | Sep 01, 2015 10:43AM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Summer Reading - Whites Only? | 25 | 211 | Sep 01, 2015 02:53PM | |
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