New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover - Second novel by this Nobel prize winning writer, originally published in 1974, the story of the friendship of two young women, who met as twelve year old girls - both smart, both poor, both black - in a small Ohio town, but whose lives took very different paths. 174 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-394-480449.