This author has published a collection of essays titled The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter. "I've always felt," says recommender James Tata, "that one of the reasons the African American essayistic tradition in American letters is so strong--Du Bois, Ellison, Baldwin come immediately to mind--is that all you have to do to get material if you're black is to walk out your front door; America harshly provides the rest. Pemberton mines her experiences and her literary tradition for essays of warmth, intelligence, and wit." Pemberton is a professor at Wesleyan University.
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