Pieces from life's crazy quilt
By: Marvin V. Arnett.
Series: American lives
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Arnett, Marvin V., 1928- -- Childhood and youth; African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography; Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Part memoir and part urban social history, Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt is an African American woman's personal account of her life during a racially turbulent period in a northern American city. Raised in a black neighborhood in urban Detroit, Marvin V. Arnett begins her book with her birth during the Great Depression, and ends with the infamous Detroit race riot of 1943.

Arnett's close observations and attention to the details of her neighborhood and the complex adult relationships around her make this an understated yet powerful story of witness."--BOOK JACKET.