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Dishing Up the Dignity in Sorrow's Kitchen

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19920809
Author:Henry Louis Gates Jr.

I BEEN IN SORROW'S KITCHEN AND LICKED OUT ALL THE POTS By Susan Straight Hyperion. 355 pages. $19.95

MARIETTA COOK is too tall and too black and too independent. Growing up in a tiny hamlet in the Gullah-speaking Low Country of South Carolina, she knows she never quite fit in. Pine Gardens, you understand, is a place where the women weave baskets and the men fish and electricity is still regarded with a fair measure of puzzlement. A place where sage elders are just bustin' with hard-won wisdom, exactly like in the movies. Or maybe they were all force-fed the platitudes of Elbert Hubbard ...

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