San Francisco: Mercury House, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 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 and the new South that I've ever read.' INSCRIBED on the title page "for --- in fellowship and for poetry" and dated in 1991. Cover illustration by Sharon Smith. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-916515-206.