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Her other works include the novel your blues aint like mine, which was a new york times notable book of the year and the winner of the naacp image. Chicagoborn armstrong tom is fifteen, black and unused to the segregated ways of the deep south when his mother sends him to spend the summer with relatives in her native rural mississippi. And then, tommy walnut, a white man who has found love and friendship with a poor black family in the 1960s deep south, is. Download fulltext pdf download fulltext pdf your blues aint like my blues. Find books like your blues aint like mine from the worlds largest community of readers.
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