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In Know the Mother, Cooper explores how sexism and racism continue to uncoil in the midst of life's most intimate moments. A former journalist and Pulitzer Prize-nominated columnist for the Detroit Free Press, Cooper uses the compressed form of "flash fiction" to tell an entire story. Slipping between poetry and prose, the 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow takes the reader to places where race and gender are unexpected interlopers--from a traditional Japanese market where a black woman shops with her newborn, to a law office where a woman miscarries during a conference call, to the middle of the night when spirits arrive for dinner. ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 957 ratings · 160 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Know the Mother (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 4.09 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom by Shelly Oria (Editor), Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), R.O. Kwon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 319 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Special 4.36 avg rating — 116 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies by Joel Stone (Editor), Thomas J. Sugrue (Foreword), Bill Mcgraw (Contributor) 4.15 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction by Megan Giddings (Editor), George Abraham, Reem Abu-Baker 4.48 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other People's Skin: Four Novellas by Tracy Price-Thompson, TaRessa Stovall, Elizabeth Atkins 4.32 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bob Seger's House and Other Stories (Made in Michigan Writer Series) by Michael Delp (Contributor), Charles Baxter (Foreword), Ellen Airgood (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.39 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors (Made in Michigan Writer Series) by Desiree Cooper (Contributor), Tommye Blount (Contributor), Justin Boggués (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Summers: Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors (Made in Michigan Writers Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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