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Because It is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart

Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator Constance Towers

Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.

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Summary

In the early 1950s— the decade before the Civil rights movement— racial boundaries kept people apart or brought them together in explosive and dramatic ways. Iris Courtney, a young white woman, begins a clandestine relationship with Jinx Fairchild, a Black man who defended her in a fatal street fight with a white man. That one act changes their lives overnight, altering their destinies in ways they could never have imagined in this emotion-packed novel of violence, love, and racism.
Duration: about 3 hours (03:00:30)
Publishing date: 1990-06-01; Abridged; Copyright Year: 1990. Copyright Statment: —