"Warmly engrossing...Sanders writes with wit and authority in this unusual gem of a love story."CHICAGO TRIBUNEClover is a 10-year old black girl from a small town in South Carolina, whose life changes forever when her father dies and she is forced to forge a new relationship with the white stepmother she hardly knows. A beautiful, trenchant story of family lost and found, CLOVER is a unque and heartfelt reading experience for all ages.

Clover

Literature & Fiction

SANDERS, DORI

Literary

Ballantine Books

"Warmly engrossing...Sanders writes with wit and authority in this unusual gem of a love story." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Clover is a 10-year old black girl from a small town in South Carolina, whose life changes forever when her father dies and she is forced to forge a new relationship with the white stepmother she hardly knows. A beautiful, trenchant story of family lost and found, CLOVER is a unque and heartfelt reading experience for all ages.

Contemporary

Her Own Place

"Somewhere in the first five pages of HER OWN PLACE the glow begins....And you begin to glow becuase it just feels so good." THE BOSTON GLOBE This is Mae Lee Barnes, story--from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood--and all stops in between, living the troubled, joyous, and indomitable life of a black matriarch during a time of change that will alter her life and her family's forever....

United States

After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.

Teen & Young Adult

Demco Media

Her Own Place traces the life and times of Mae Lee Barnes, an African American woman from rural South Carolina. The novel begins with Mae Lee's life as a teenager in the 1940s and follows her eventual marriage to her boyfriend, Jeff Barnes, who proposes before going off to fight in World War II. While Jeff is in the army, Mae Lee works rotating shifts at a local munitions plant and saves every penny she can to purchase a small farm. When Jeff returns from the war, he alternates between spending time on the farm and going to find work in the city, and eventually the family decides to start a new life in the city together. The day their new life is to begin, Jeff abandons Mae Lee and their five children, and the story traces Mae Lee's struggles and triumphs after Jeff leaves, including her challenges as a single parent on a working farm, her life after her children are grown, the realities of racial integration in the South, and the realization that her memory is slipping away.

Turtleback Books

A single mother of four, indomitable war bride Mae Lee Jones succeeds in life by becoming an industrious farmer, a witty counselor, a dedicated member of the hospital auxiliary, and an elegant hostess. (General Fiction)

Her Own Place: A Novel (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

G.K.Hall & Co.

Clover Hill is ten years old when her father, the principal of the local elementary school, marries a white woman, Sara Kate. Just hours later, an automobile accident compels Clover to forge a relationship with the new stepmother she hardly knows in this beautiful, enduring novel about a family lost and found. First published by Algonquin in 1990 and winner of the Lillian Smith Award for Southern literature that enhances racial awareness, Clover is a national bestseller and has been recommended reading for classrooms across the country. Now on our thirtieth anniversary we have the pleasure of republishing this Algonquin classic in trade paperback, with an original essay by the author. In the spirit of Cold Sassy Tree and The Secret Life of Bees, Clover is a witty, insightful classic for readers of all ages.

Algonquin Books

In her first new work published in nearly a decade, farmer-turned-novelist Dori Sanders looks back at the struggles and triumphs of her own family's story.  The farm where she grew up in Filbert, South Carolina, profoundly shaped the writer Sanders was to become. "Because the former slaves could buy the land with only a small down payment and the promise to pay the rest of the money owed, the rural farming community came to be called 'Promise Land,'" she explains.  But this is more than nostalgia for a simpler time. Sanders candidly details the hardships and dispels the myths of life in the Jim Crow South. She takes readers back to her childhood, when she first felt the sting of segregation.  She recounts the exploitation of black sharecroppers. "For generations to come and down to this day, the slaves' descendants would chant the true meaning of sharecropping for them: "The 'S' stands for slavery, the 'C' for continued," Sanders writes.  She powerfully evokes the ever-present threat of a KKK ride. Then, turning to today, she explains the difficulties black farmers still face in the 21st-century South. But with authority and clarity of voice, she never lets readers forget that hers was a community of grace, and of goodness.  This monograph is adapted from an address delivered October 2004, by Dori Sanders at the Southern Foodways Alliance Annual Symposium at the University of Mississippi, which co-sponsored publication of this work.

Promise Land: A Farmer Remembers

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Novello Festival Pr

Dori Sanders' first novel, CLOVER was a smash hit. Now, with HER OWN PLACE, Dori Sanders tells a story about ordinary people taking part in a transformation of heart and mind--in the South, in the nation. "Resonates as powerfully as an old hymn."--Kirkus Reviews; "Like a ripe summer peach, HER OWN PLACE just keeps getting better and better until the last page leaves the reader longing for more."--Christian Science Monitor. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.

Here is a book as delightful to read as it is to cook from. Dori Sanders' recipes include not only new interpretations of old-time favorites such as Spoon Bread, Chicken and Dumplings, Corn Bread, and Buttermilk Biscuits, but also her "Cooking for Northerners"--original dishes such as Winter Greens Parmesan, Roasted Mild Peppers, Fresh Vegetable Stew--and, of course, great recipes for peaches. A Literary Guild and a Rodale Press Book Club selection.

Dori Sanders' Country Cooking: Recipes and Stories from the Family Farm Stand

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Baking

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Clover

Clover

Her Own Place

Clover

Her Own Place

Her Own Place: A Novel (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

Clover

Promise Land: A Farmer Remembers

Her Own Place

Dori Sanders' Country Cooking: Recipes and Stories from the Family Farm Stand