Through the Ivory Gate: A novel

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Imprint: Vintage (Oct 05, 1993)
Poetry, Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780679742401

    Description of Through the Ivory Gate: A novel

    A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means dealing with memories of racism, rejected love—and truths about her family. Author readings.
    Rita Dove

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