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Anglou's tale is a stark retelling of a life so foreign to my own as to almost make me feel like I was reading a fantasy novel rather than an autobiography. And yet, this is what literature is for--to allow us to live in the skin of another, even for a few hundred pages. I will never truly understand what it was to grow up poor, black, and female in the depression-ridden south, but thanks to books like this, I can have an inkling.
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