http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/09/25/just-a-toy-store-bambaras-the-lesson/ Blogging Postmodern Blackness Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:45:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/09/25/just-a-toy-store-bambaras-the-lesson/#comment-948 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:07:57 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3120#comment-948 Gorilla My Love, is at the top of my list of favorites. The little girls in this collection are so smart and vibrant and full of themselves (in a good way). I often wonder why we so seldom see the grown-up version of these girls in today’s literature . . .

]]> http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/09/25/just-a-toy-store-bambaras-the-lesson/#comment-925 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:44:50 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3120#comment-925 And she says “about doing nothing. Going nowhere.” Yet this nowhere has broken our girls spirit.

]]> http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/09/25/just-a-toy-store-bambaras-the-lesson/#comment-921 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:15:04 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3120#comment-921 I’m not much of a fan of short story collections, but you’ve reminded me how much I liked this one. Thank goodness for the gifts our women writer/prophets left behind…

]]> http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/09/25/just-a-toy-store-bambaras-the-lesson/#comment-920 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:30:21 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3120#comment-920 Toni Cade Bambara’s stories are as powerful now as they were when I first read them many, many years ago when they were first published. “Gorilla, My Love” is a classic and one of my favorite short story collections. We lost this brilliant sister much too soon.

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