Reena and Other Stories: Including the Novella Merle

By Paule Marshall

Book Overview

This collection of short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. Opening the volume is the much-acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen," which pays homage to the hard-working, storytelling West Indian women who serve as her muses--women who fought back against oppression and invisibility using the only weapon at their command: the spoken word. Such women appear in her luminous short stories, which travel from Brooklyn to Barbados and back again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935312242
• ISBN13: 9780935312249
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.9"
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12