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Southgate was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Third Girl from the Left
( At the center of this dazzling novel is Angela, a twent...)
At the center of this dazzling novel is Angela, a twenty-year-old beauty who leaves the stifling conformity of Oklahoma to search for fame during the rise of blaxploitation cinema in Los Angeles. But for her mother, Mildred, a strait-laced survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, Angela's acting career is unforgivable, and the distance between them grows into a silence that lasts for years. It is only when Angela's daughter, Tamara, a filmmaker, sets out to close the rift between them that the women are forced to confront all that has been left unspoken in their lives. Bold and beautifully written, Third Girl from the Left deftly explores the bonds of family and the inextricable pull of the movies.
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Another Way to Dance
(Fourteen-year-old Vicki Harris's dream has come true. She...)
Fourteen-year-old Vicki Harris's dream has come true. She has been accepted into the summer program at New York City's prestigious School of American Ballet. It will be hard work and highly competitive, but Vicki feels ready. She is totally committed to dancing. Vicki isn't prepared to be one of only two African-American students in the program. Nor is she expecting the racism she finds within the school. And Michael, from Harlem, takes Vicki completely by surprise. He shakes up her dream world--where Baryshnikov is her idol, her parents never really got divorced, and every pirouette is perfect--and shows her that the real world is bigger than a stage. From the Paperback edition.
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Another Way to Dance by Martha Southgate (1998-01-12)
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The Taste of Salt
( Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate (who, in the wo...)
Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate (who, in the words of Julia Glass, “can write fat and hot, then lush and tender, then just plain truthful and burning with heart”) now tells the story of a family pushed to its limits by addiction over the course of two generations. Josie Henderson loves the water and is fulfilled by her position as the only senior-level black scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. In building this impressive life for herself, she has tried to shed the one thing she cannot: her family back in landlocked Cleveland. Her adored brother, Tick, was her childhood ally as they watched their drinking father push away all the love that his wife and children were trying to give him. Now Tick himself has been coming apart and demands to be heard. Weaving four voices into a beautiful tapestry, Southgate charts the lives of the Hendersons from the parents’ first charmed meeting to Josie’s realization that the ways of the human heart are more complex than anything seen under a microscope.
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The Taste of Salt - Large Print THE TASTE OF SALT - LARGE PRINT BY Southgate, Martha ( Author ) Mar-21-2012
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Martha Southgate
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She attended Smith College before obtaining an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard.
Career
Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O, Premiere, and Essence. Southgate"s first novel Another Way to Dance, about a 14-year-old black aspiring ballerina, was published in 1997 by Delacorte Press. In 2002 she released The Fall of Rome: A Novel, set in a New England college prep school.
Her third novel, Third Girl from the Left, was published in 2005.
Southgate"s most recent novel, The Taste of Salt was published in 2011 by Algonquin Books. In 2013 plans for an adaptation of Southgate"s novel Third Girl from the Left were announced.
Actresses Kerry Washington and Viola Davis were attached to star.
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The Taste of Salt
( Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate (who, in the wo...)
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Third Girl from the Left
( At the center of this dazzling novel is Angela, a twent...)
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Another Way to Dance
(Fourteen-year-old Vicki Harris's dream has come true. She...)
- Another Way to Dance by Martha Southgate (1998-01-12)
- The Taste of Salt - Large Print THE TASTE OF SALT - LARGE PRINT BY Southgate, Martha ( Author ) Mar-21-2012
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The Taste of Salt
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