Date of Review:

05/11/1986

Published Work:

Reviewer:

Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Source:

The New York Times

Review Excerpt:

... What is most remarkable is not her success, but her candid admissions of failure and her indisputable certainty that only a unique black spiritual heritage has carried her beyond it. Repeatedly, she summons the folk wisdom of her mother and her church-going grandmother as solace. ...

Link to Full Review:

Part Five: Into Africa