num_pages: 250
description: Mamie Garvin Fields was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1888. Though black, her family was gifted and she grew up not among house servants or sharecroppers but among artisans and professionals. In LEMON SWAMP, she looks back on this all-but-forgotten community of friends and family, and on the wider social landscape of the segregationist South of her youth.
language: English
title: Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir
titlecomplete: Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir
genres: African American Literature, Family, Nonfiction, Grad School, Memoir
ratings_count: 57
publisher: Free Press