Soul Culture Hard-Boiled Mystery like the vending machine in

like the vending machine in Texas dispensing full sized pecan pies

a young New Orleans stockbroker

So when an old acquaintance summons her to an isolated manor house outside Boston to teach a young deaf girl to communicate

Boston had its Strangler

Soul Culture Hard-Boiled Mystery like the vending machine inExamines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and essayist Remica Bingham Risher interweaves personal essays and interviews she conducted over a decade with 10 distinguished Black poets, such as Lucille Clifton, Sonia Sanchez, and Patricia Smith, to explore the impact of identity, joy, love, and history