num_pages: 216
description: In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation. A winner of the Chicago Tribune ’s Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize, Colored People is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling
language: English
title: Colored People: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Colored People: A Memoir
genres: History, African American, Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, Coming Of Age, Biography Memoir, Race, The United States Of America, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1019
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Weatherford Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: Vintage