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OverviewBorn and raised in Turrell, Arkansas as a young sharecropper, picking and chopping cotton and living under racial tension and poverty out in the country, poet Dorothy Robinson would cling to her mother and niece who was more like a sister to her hoping to escape her childhood life. Wanting a better life, she would later migrate to the Westside of Chicago and get married; thereafter, hoping to escape gangs, crime and poverty to raise her family, mentally-ill brother and sick mother at the same time. Discovering a little town south of Chicago called Hopkins Park, she made the sacrifices of being a wife and a mother of 8 children on welfare to cope and deal with harsh life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aaron Robinson , Mozella Malone , Dorothy RobinsonPublisher: Independently Published Imprint: Independently Published Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.118kg ISBN: 9798846402379Pages: 78 Publication Date: 13 August 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |