Hurt Village /
"It's the end of a long summer in Hurt Village, a housing project in Memphis, Tennessee. A government Hope Grant means relocation for many of the project's residents, including Cookie, a thirteen-year-old aspiring rapper, along with her mother, Crank, and great-grandmother, Big Mama....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dramatists Play Service,
[2013]
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| Summary: | "It's the end of a long summer in Hurt Village, a housing project in Memphis, Tennessee. A government Hope Grant means relocation for many of the project's residents, including Cookie, a thirteen-year-old aspiring rapper, along with her mother, Crank, and great-grandmother, Big Mama. As the family prepares to move, Cookie's father, Buggy, unexpectedly returns from a tour of duty in Iraq. Ravaged by the war, Buggy struggles to find a position in his disintegrating community, along with a place in his daughter's wounded heart."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Play for 5 men and 4 women. |
| Physical Description: | 81 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Awards: | Winner of the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. |
| ISBN: | 9780822226833 (paperback) 0822226839 (paperback) 9780822226826 0822226820 |