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All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006) is a collection of short stories by African-American author Edward P. Jones; it was his first book after winning the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for The Known World. The collection of 14 stories centers on African Americans in Washington D.C. during the 20th century.
The structure of Lost in the City mirrors that of All Aunt Hagar's Children, another collection of short stories written by Jones: . The first story in Lost in the City has to do with Betsy Ann and the pigeons, and the first story in All Aunt Hagar's Children is about the infancy of the man who ultimately gives her the pigeons.
The fourteen stories of All Aunt Hagar's Children revisit not merely the city of Washington but the fourteen stories of Lost in the City. Each new story—and many of them, in their completeness, feel like fully realized little novels—is connected in the same sequence, as if umbilically, to the corresponding story in the first book.
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories, Edward P. Jones (2006) All the Right Stuff, Walter Dean Myers (2012) American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama, Rachel L. Swarns (2013) Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson (2016) At Home with Muhammad Ali, Hana Ali (2019)
Her best-known tracks are "Decatur Street Blues" and "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues". [1] She was a contemporary of the better-known recording artists Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, and Bertha "Chippie" Hill. Little is known of her life outside music.
Aunt Hagar's Blues", variously known as "Aunt Hagar's Children" or "Aunt Hagar's Children's Blues", is a 1920 blues song which has since become a jazz standard. It was written by W. C. Handy and J Tim Brymn .
"All Aunt Hagar's Children: Edward P. Jones, B-Sides Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites 2021, John Plotz, ed. "Two Baths": Best American Essays 1991, Cynthia Ozick, guest ed.
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