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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
by Zora Neale Hurston
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AuthorZora Neale Hurston
PublisherHQ
SynopsisFrom ‘one of the greatest writers of our time’ (Toni
Morrison) – the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
and Barracoon – a collection of remarkable short stories
from the Harlem Renaissance
With a foreword by Tayari Jones, author of An American
Marriage
‘Genius’ Alice Walker
‘Rigorous, convincing, dazzling’ Zadie Smith on Their Eyes Were Watching God
In 1925, college student Zora Neale Hurston – the sole black student at Barnard College, New York –
was living in the city, ‘desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.’
During this period, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life
and transformed her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later,
this singular talent is recognised as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the
modern period.
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is 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, they include eight of 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 biting, satiric humour, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of
Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this
exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions.
