San Francisco: Mercury House, 1987. A novel focusing on a large black family in Atlanta, as depicted through the musings and ramblings of Annie Eliza, the matriach, by this award-winning poet and writer. Russell Banks called this ' the sharpest, most compassionate and thorough-going insider's view of a Black middle class family an the new South that I've ever read.' Cover illustration by Sharon Smith. ISBN: 0-916515-680.