Dear Darkness: Poems by Kevin Young Jane Smiley racial discrimination

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The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club

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all with PhDs—they are each attempting to do meaningful work in a rapidly foundering world

Dear Darkness: Poems by Kevin Young Jane Smiley racial discriminationDelivered in Youngs classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that time inevitably brings bristles with life, nerve and, best of all, wit (San Francisco Chronicle).