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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Patrick, Denise Lewis.
A matter of souls / Denise Lewis Patrick.
pages cm
Summary: A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African
Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor’s office, lynching, and other
forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s.
ISBN 978–0–7613–9280–4 (trade hard cover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978–1–4677–2402–9 (eBook)
[1. Race relations—Fiction. 2. African Americans—Southern States—Fiction.
3. Southern States—History—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.P2747Mat 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2013017597
Manufactured in the United States of America
2 – BP – 9/15/14
