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Authors: Laurie Jean Cannady

Crave

CRAVE

SOJOURN OF A HUNGRY SOUL

© 2015 by Laurie Jean Cannady

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher.

The author has attempted to recreate events, conversations, and spaces from childhood memories and memories recounted to her by family members and friends. Some names have been changed.

Etruscan Press

Wilkes University

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Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766

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www.etruscanpress.org

Published 2015 by Etruscan Press

Cover design by Laurie Powers

Cover photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Interior photographs courtesy of Mary Carter

Interior design and typesetting by Susan Leonard

The text of this book is set in Goudy Old Style.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cannady, Laurie Jean, 1974-

  
Crave : sojourn of a hungry soul / Laurie Jean Cannady. -- First edition.

        
pages cm

  
ISBN 978-0-9903221-4-6

 
1. Cannady, Laurie Jean, 1974---Childhood and youth. 2. Cannady, Laurie Jean, 1974---Family. 3. African Americans--Virginia--Biography. 4. African American families--Virginia--Biography. 5. African American families--Social conditions--20th century. 6. Virginia--Social conditions--20th century. I. Title.

  
E185.97.C25A3 2015

  
306.85'08996073--dc23

2015002581
                                      

Please turn to the back of this book for a list of the sustaining funders of Etruscan Press.

This book is printed on recycled, acid-free paper.

To those curvy, unnerving, twist walking, body talking, get-all-up-in-your-face women. Ones who don't take no crap, even though it's often tossed at them. Ones making ends meet, when no ends exist. Those ladies can't nobody stand, 'cause no one understands them. Not many things are dedicated to you. This book is.

“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.”

—Maya Angelou,
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.”

—Proverbs 27:7

CRAVE

FROM SCRATCH

   
From Scratch

   
A Feast in the Making

   
The Way It Is Done

   
The Reasons

   
The Coast

MISSING INGREDIENTS

   
Missing Ingredients

   
White Wash

   
Snow Cold

   
Nowhere Man

UNNECESSARY ADDITIVES

   
Black Oak

   
Learning Curve

   
No-No Zone

SIDE DISHES AND ENTREES

   
Side Dishes and Entrees

   
Casualty of War

   
Prayer List

   
The Good Reverend

   
Stubble

   
The Singer

   
Our Song

RESTARTING FROM SCRATCH

   
Restarting from Scratch

   
Sweet and Sour

   
New Recipes

   
Guard Duty

   
Cool It Now

HIDDEN INGREDIENTS

   
Nothing New in New

   
From Constitution to Queen

   
Our Secret

   
A Teenage Love

   
Blind Spot

   
Yellow Peace

A MESS OF POTTAGE

   
A Break

   
Lincoln Park

   
When It Rains

   
Wondering and Wandering

   
War of Wars

   
No Peace in Dysfunction

   
Few Good Men

   
The Living Doesn't Get Easier

HUNGER PAINS

   
Cutting Into a New Me

   
Dirt Can Never Clean

   
We Each Miss Her

   
Chicken Little

   
Early to Rise

   
Food for Thought

MALNUTRITION

   
Never Tell

   
Reawakening

   
Lemme Show You Something

   
Put a Fork in It

EYES BIGGER THAN YOUR STOMACH

   
Life Rang On

   
My Happy

   
Dull Pain

   
Gotta Be My Own Healing

   
Pretty as Pat

   
Patty Change

PURGE

   
Mr. Lover Man

   
On the Next Bus

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