How I Became Hettie Jones
by Hettie Jones
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Author: Hettie JonesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-12-06
ISBN: 0802134963
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Grove Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
This book captures the flavor of Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, the Beat Generation and BeBop Jazz, as it was happening. This young and talented white woman falls in love with a black man at a time when interracial relationships were considered shocking. Her father totally cuts off all contact with her for the rest of her life. She raises their two girls, all the while working and barely making ends meet, so that LeRoi Jones can write. She endures his numerous affairs, including with Diane di Prima, who has a baby by LeRoi Jones. Yet he decides he must divorce her because (his reason) she is white. Like her father he then cuts off all contact with her. However, throughout she does not indulge in self-pity (even as my heart was breaking for her). She does survive and comes to acknowledge her own writing talent.
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