Title: Leaving Pipe Shop
First published: 1996
Description: "Steeped in the lively cadences of black speech and the art of storytelling, Leaving Pipe Shop is one woman's reclamation of her family's history and ultimately her own. Clear-eyed, yet with feeling and delicacy, Deborah E. McDowell offers this moving and textured meditation on the ties of kin and the claims of memory.".

"More than a simple coming-of-age story, Leaving Pipe Shop is an evocation of growing up black in the South on the eve of the tumultuous sixties, a portrait of a culture in transition, of a Southern world in the throes of political and economic change. Here is the debut of a rich and powerful voice in American memoir."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Biography, African Americans, Social life and customs, African American women, Childhood and youth, United states, genealogy, New York Times reviewed
Places: Alabama, Bessemer, Bessemer (Ala.)
People: Deborah E. McDowell (1951-), McDowell family
LC classification: F334.B5 M38 1996