In the Country of Women. Susan Straight

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      Copyright © 2019 by Susan Straight

      First published in the United States in 2019 by Catapult (catapult.co)

      All rights reserved

      Some of these chapters have appeared, in different form, in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Oxford American, Granta, McSweeney’s, The Believer, The Best American Essays 2010, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to Linda Hogan for permission to reprint a portion of her poem Walking.

      Unless otherwise credited, all photographs are provided courtesy of the author.

      Photograph on title page: Rosie Morris and Alberta Sims

      ISBN: 978-1-948226-22-6

       Jacket design by Nicole Caputo

       Book design by Wah-Ming Chang

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018965034

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       For General and Alberta Sims,

       and John and Gabrielle Watson

      Author’s Note

      Memory is a sixth sense, or seventh—and so belongs in specific truth to the people who told me these stories over a span of fifty years. I’ve written them here as they were given to us—people whose lives were not documented by history but by their own persistence in retelling all of us, again and again, how we came to be.

      For the six generations of women in this book:

      “Your crown has been bought and paid for. All you must do is put it on.”

      — JAMES BALDWIN

      Contents

Prologue: Homerica

PART I

1 Little House in the Thistles

       Glen Avon, California, 1963

2 The First Bullet

       Fine, Near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1876

3 The Dance

       Ruby Triboulet, Colorado Prairie, 1921

4 The Country Squire

       Riverside, California, 1973

5 Nurse-in-Charge

       Rosa Leu, Aeschlen, Switzerland, 1944

6 Hey Now

       Riverside, California, March 1974

7 Olympia—One Can Could Get You Pregnant

       Riverside, California, June 1974

       8 Daisy Belle

       Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1915

       9 Driveway #1—The First Love Letter

       Riverside, California, May 1976

       PART II

       10 Castas

       11 Mulato

       Riverside and Los Angeles, California, 1979

       12 The Second Bullet

       Jennie Stevenson, Outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, Early 1900s

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