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title: "I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots"
author: "Susan Straight"
genre: "Historical Fiction, African American Literature"
category: "Fiction"
themes: "Resilience and Endurance;Community and Connection;The Black Experience in American History;The passage of time and memory"
isbn_10: "0385470126"
asin: "0385470126"
bnid: "1012149607"
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data_license: "CC BY-NC 4.0"
---

# I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

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