01827cam a2200349 i 4500 428853346 TxGeo 20200630120000.0 190905s2019||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2019037366 9781432873127 hbk. 1432873121 hbk. (OCoLC)1119745373 TxGeo rda Straight, Susan. In the country of women [large print] : a memoir / Susan Straight. Large print edition. Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019. 525 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close-knit Sims family, Straight--and eventually her three daughters--heard for decades the stories of Dwayne's female ancestors"-- Provided by publisher. 20201006. Straight, Susan. Straight, Susan. Family. Women authors, American Biography. Racially mixed people United States Biography. Large type books. Autobiographies. QS5