Reena and Other Stories: Including the Novella "Merle"

This collection of short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. Opening the volume is the much-acclaimed autobiographical essay, “From the Poets in the Kitchen,” which pays homage to the hard-working, storytelling West Indian women who serve as her muses — women who fought back against oppression and invisibility using the only weapon at their command: the spoken word. Such women appear in her luminous short stories, which travel from Brooklyn to Barbados and back again.

• Author
• Paule Marshall

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 224

• Publisher
• The Feminist Press at CUNY

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780935312249

• Genres
• fiction

• Release date
• 1993