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 Baby Sweet's
Raymond Andrews

This story tells of a venture between John Morgan, Jr. the dissolute heir to Appalachee's leading white family, and Baby Sweet Jackson, owner of the once-vibrant Red's Cafe in Dark Town. On Independence Day, 1966, the partners open Muskhogean County's first bordello, with two dark-skinned black women, Lana Lips and Fig, ready for the expected white clientele. Then a mysterious woman, announcing herself as the 'third whore,' arrives-and proclaims that her body will be 'for colored only.'

ISBN 0820310697 paper • $16.95

232 pp. • 6 x 9 in.15 illustrations misc. illus.

"Stylish and funny, a pleasure to read.... The novel is related as smoothly as a tale told on a back porch."
—Frederick Busch, New York Times Book Review

"A superlative storyteller with a keen ear.... Mr. Andrew's characters are so robust they virtually leap off the page."
—Kansas City Star

"One reads Andrews for his raucous and robust humor, his really profound knowledge of the South, his ultimately accepting and benign vision-of a world in which blacks and whites sometimes hate and midtreat one another but ultimately arrive at an understanding-and most of all for the entertaining voice that tells the stories."
—Washington Post