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They Raised Me Up

A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her

They Raised Me Up( )
Author: Wilkins, Carolyn Marie
ISBN:978-0-8262-7308-6
Publication Date:Oct 2013
Publisher:University of Missouri Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $29.95
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At the height of the cocaine-fueled 1980s, Carolyn Wilkins left a disastrous marriage in Seattle and, hoping to make it in the music business, moved with her four-year-old daughter to a gritty working-class town on the edge of Boston. They Raised Me Up is the story of her battle to succeed in the world of jam sessions and jazz clubs--a man's world where women were seen as either sex objects or doormats. To survive, she had to find a way to pay the bills, overcome a...
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