Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories / Zora Neale Hurston ; foreword by Tayari Jones ; edited with an introduction by Genevieve West

An outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African-American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, the collection includes eight of Zora Neale Hurston's 'lost' Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her b...