Books by Mary Burnett Smith and Complete Book Reviews

Mary Burnett Smith, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-15234-5
Among the recent crop of fiction from black women, this sensitive coming-of-age novel, Smith's first, is exceptional. The elderly narrator flashes back to the summer of 1948, when she was 11 and known as Isabel ""Belly"" Anderson. Precocious Belly...
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Mary Burnett Smith, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-15987-0
Moving from the recent past to memories of 1940, Smith's pleasantly meandering second novel, a sensitive coming-of-age memoir, charts the end of a miserable 14-year marriage in the black neighborhood of a small town outside Philadelphia during WWII.
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