Willie Mae

by Elizabeth Kytle

Book Overview

First published in 1958 and selected by the New York Times as one of the best books of the year, Willie Mae is a first-person account of a black woman's life and her experiences as a domestic worker in a succession of southern households in the first half of the century. Powerful and poignant, sometimes funny and always honest, Willie Mae is a testament to the courage and strength of a generation of women who struggled to survive with dignity and...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451024184
• ISBN13: 9780451024183
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 243 Pages