The Haygoods of Columbus: A Love Story Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Haygoods of Columbus: A Love Story Book

The bare facts suggest the author's family was a textbook case of African-American dysfunctionalism: his parents divorced in 1954 after three years and five children; two of his brothers were in trouble with the law; and two of his sisters had illegitimate children. But they emerge as flesh-and-blood individuals in Haygood's moving narrative, which chronicles his flight away from poverty in Columbus, Ohio, toward college and a career in journalism, even as it acknowledges unbreakable links to kin and the past. The unadorned prose seethes with emotion that is all the more powerful for being suppressed.Read More

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  • Product Description

    An evocative account of Columbus, Ohio, and the Haygood family offers portraits of the author's grandmother, the hotel cook; his mother, the nightlife-loving waitress; his mostly absent father; his brother the pimp; and his poverty-stricken sisters as they struggle to find their dreams.

  • 0395671701
  • 9780395671702
  • Wil Haygood
  • 1 March 2001
  • Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 360
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