I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

Beginning in the late 1950s, this novel tells the story of Marietta Cook, a tall girl growing up in Pine Gardens, a Gullah-speaking village in South Carolina. When Marietta’s mother dies, she heads to Charleston in search of her uncle – only to find a lover and return pregnant with twins two years later. She raises her sons back home in the low country before moving the fa….Read More