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Black-Eyed Peas and Turnip Greens: A Memoir
Black-Eyed Peas and Turnip Greens: A Memoir
Black-Eyed Peas and Turnip Greens: A Memoir
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"A better sister novel for To Kill a Mockingbird, this southern bildungsroman, Black-Eyed Peas and Turnip Greens written by 92-year-old first-time author Bonnie Smith, plants our imaginations vividly in the soil of her poverty-stricken childhood and develops in us not pity but endearing admiration. Both a raw confessional and tale of triumph, Smith's voice is as fresh and flourishing as her first day of school amid violent bullies and shaming teachers whose relentless taunting only serve to fertilize a bounty of inner strength that will see her from coast to coast through decades of anti-female working conditions, failed marriages, and drug-abusing children. What most amazes and inspires in this sometimes funny, always generous, and deeply soul-searching autobiography, is that Smith remains thankful for the scarlet "P" that poverty etched upon her mind. I want all my high school students to read it as soon as possible, while the author lives to receive our thank you notes." Lauren Graham
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Release dateJul 31, 2020
ISBN9781647504908
Black-Eyed Peas and Turnip Greens: A Memoir
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Bonnie Smith

Bonnie Smith has been a writer all her life but had to earn a living for her family instead of writing the sentences that rattled around in her head nearly every day and night. She still has many short stories and essays that were never published due to time restraints.Several years ago, she wrote and published a nonfiction book entitled Our Rank, Our Freedom, Our Power, plus she has written numerous newspaper articles, as well as editorials, and feature stories. Smith published Black-Eyed peas and Turnip Greens about eight years ago to test the market. Her real estate business required too much time to followthrough to expand, re-edit and finalize it into a marketable book until after retirement. It is her first book to be published at ninety-two years old. Everyone who read the book urged her to publish it. A literary professor was extremely excited about it, describing it another To Kill a Mockingbird. Smith's talents include a part-time career as a professional artist in watercolor, oil, and pastels, and computer graphic arts. The author is a lifetime nature worshiper who loves fishing, gardening, photography, and painting. She also is political 'news junky' who is fascinated by history and politics.

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