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Can I read This Child's Gonna Live on EtoBox?
This Child's Gonna Live by Sarah E. Wright; with an appreciation by John Oliver Killens is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is This Child's Gonna Live about?
"[An] exploration of the black experience from a woman's perspective, anticipating fiction by writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker."— The New York Times Originally published in 1969 to broad critical acclaim, This Child's Gonna Live is an unsurpassed testament to human endurance in the face of poverty, racism, and despair. Set in a fishing village on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the 1930s, this story has as its main character the unforgettable Mariah Upshur, a hard-working, sensual, resili
Who reads This Child's Gonna Live?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Sarah E. Wright; with an appreciation by John Oliver Killens
- Publisher
- Feminist Press at the City University of New York
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781558617261
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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