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Politics & Social Sciences

Mary Jane Ryals

Social Sciences

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

<p>Florida Big Bend Poet Laureate Mary Jane Ryals' first bound poetry collection, in nine parts, ranges from poems celebrating travels across Western Europe, Mexico, and Vietnam, to poems of life and family set in the sensual, natural world of Florida. "It's said that Jefferson knew the world because he knew better his little plot at Monticello, and the same is true of The Moving Waters, this magnificent atlas that goes everywhere-Spain, France, Mexico, Vietnam-yet begins and ends in the Florida Panhandle, that is to say, in the poet's heart." -David Kirby, National Book Award Finalist, The House on Boulevard Street "Sensual and exotic, Mary Jane Ryals delves into the mythology of ancestry, what we have, what we pass on, what it means to be foreign, even to the self. The Moving Waters has the heft and breadth of a long and stunning career bound in an edition of collected poems, which makes it an especially graceful debut." -Julianna Baggott, Lizzie Borden in Love; Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees</p>

The Moving Waters

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Kitsune Books

<p>With an ear for regional voices as pitch perfect as a tuning fork, Mary Jane Ryals brings to life her beloved South during the tumultuous days of the early civil rights movement. Set in Tallahassee, Florida, Cookie &amp; Me tells the story of Rayann, who is white and somewhat privileged, and Cookie, who is black and living a marginalized life that Rayann never realized existed until one life-changing summer. Cookie and Me is fresh and poignant, a beautifully-written story about two young girls, one black, one white, and how they get caught up in an explosive real-life episode during the Civil Rights Movement. Mary Jane Ryals writes like a sassy hybrid of Eudora Welty and Lee Smith. Rayann Woods, her heroine, is as bitingly funny as Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird and as sharply honest as Huck Finn. Ryals knows her North Florida backwoods, her debutantes, her good ole boys and her Jim Crow history. This novel is at once charming and unsparing, hilarious and profound. I hope this isn't the last we hear from Rayann. She's my kind of girl. -Diane (D. K.) Roberts, Dream State; The Myth of Aunt Jemima; Between Two Rivers Cookie &amp; Me is every bit as evocative of race relations in the South as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Mary Jane Ryals' Tallahassee, Florida is a kissing cousin of Lee's Maycomb, Alabama. The story is set in the turbulent sixties and features two main characters who struggle across racial lines to form a friendship that sustains them both. The writing is so visceral, you can almost hear Aretha, feel the humidity and taste the mulberries. I love this book. -Lu Vickers, Breathing Underwater; Weeki Wachee: City of Mermaids</p>

Cookie & Me

United States

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