Susan Strait talks about her novel which is set among the Gullah-speaking people of the South Carolina low country, where the Blacks live in slave-like conditions in 1959. The central character is Big Mama, who gives birth to twin boys at the age of 15. She proceeds to work at any job so that she can feed and raise them as a single parent. The boys are successful at football and end up as starts of the Rams, while Big Mama finds her nitch in the Black community of Southern California.|I BEEN IN SORROWS KITCHEN AND LICKED OUT ALL THE POTS / Susan Strait| interviewed by Pearl Skotnes. - SERIES: All about books| no. 28 - Susan Strait talks about her novel which is set among the Gullah-speaking people of the South Carolina low country, where the Blacks live in slave-like conditions in 1959. The central character is Big Mama, who gives birth to twin boys at the age of 15. She proceeds to work at any job so that she can feed and raise them as a single parent. The boys are successful at football and end up as starts of the Rams, while Big Mama finds her nitch in the Black community of Southern California.
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