Like One of the Family:

Boston: Beacon Press, 1986, 1956. Paperback quarto with color illustrated cover. xxxviii, 226 pages; 21 cm. Very very mild amount of soiling to back of cover. Else binding tight and pages crisp and clean. Fine. Paperback. ISBN: 9780807009031

Black women writers series; Beacon paperback;; 716; Beacon Fiction Contents: Like one of the family -- Listen for the music -- On sayin' no -- Ridin' the bus -- Buyin' presents -- If you wan to get along with me -- Got to go someplace -- The pocketbook game -- New York's my home -- All about my job -- Bubba -- The health card -- Your soul ... another you -- Signs of the times -- Aren't you happy? -- Nasty compliments -- Old as the hills -- Mrs. James -- Hands -- All the things we are -- I liked workin' at that place -- Good reason for a good time -- I go to a funeral -- Weekend with Pearl -- More blessed to give -- Sometimes I feel so sorry -- I go to church -- I hate half-days off -- What does Africa want? -- I wish I was a poet -- Economy corner -- In the laundry room -- I could run a school too -- I visit yesterday -- Story tellin' time -- About those colored movies -- Why should I get upset? -- Inhibitions -- What is it all about? -- We need a union too -- Pretty sights and good feelin's -- Dope and things like that -- Merry Christmas, Marge! -- On leavin' notes -- The 'many others' in history -- Interestin' and amusin' -- A new kind of prayer -- History in the makin' -- Dance with me, Henry -- Ain't you mad? -- Discontent -- Northerners can be so smug -- Let's face it -- If heaven is what we want -- Where is the speakin' place? -- Missionaries -- So much for nothing -- The Benevolent Club -- All about Miss Tubman -- A B C's of life and learning -- Somehow I'd like to thank them -- Men in your life. African American women -- Women household employees -- maids. Women authors. New York. 1950s.