num_pages: 368
description: Beginning in the late 1950s, this novel tells the story of Marietta Cook, a tall girl growing up in Pine Gardens, a Gullah-speaking village in South Carolina. When Marietta's mother dies, she heads to Charleston in search of her uncle - only to find a lover and return pregnant with twins two years later. She raises her sons back home in the low country before moving the family to Charleston, where she takes a growing interest in football and the civil rights movement. The boys grow huge and talented at the game, playing pro football in California. A new world and new travails await, but Marietta's great resilience endures.
language: English
title: I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
titlecomplete: I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
genres: Fiction, African American, Adult Fiction, Southern, Race, Adult, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 671
publisher: Anchor