The Names Of All The Flowers
A Memoir
Published on 27. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-936932-85-6 (ISBN)
Description
A compassionate memoir of a mixed-race childhood that humanizes the devastating frequency of black murder characterizing 1990s Oakland.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-936932-85-6 (9781936932856)
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06/2021
The Feminist Press at CUNY
€18.18
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Person
Melissa Valentine is a writer from Oakland, CA. She earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA in creative writing from Mills College. She has been a fellow at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, and her work has appeared in Jezebel, Guernica, Apogee Journal, and others. Her writing has received honorable mention from Glimmer Train and the Ardella Mills Non-fiction Award. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.