{"id":19149,"date":"2014-11-06T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/?p=19149"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:49:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:49:43","slug":"free-kindle-book-editors-picks-maxine-clair-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/2014\/11\/06\/free-kindle-book-editors-picks-maxine-clair-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Kindle book editor’s picks: Maxine Clair edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maxine Clair tops today’s Buffet with\u00a0Rattlebone<\/em>, first\u00a0published in 1994 and is perhaps her most well-known work. It’s\u00a0a collection of interrelated stories revolving around the life of a young African-American girl coming of age in a small Black\u00a0neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. Clair got the name of her book from Rattlebone Hollow, a North Kansas City, Kansas, neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\"\"Maxine was born and raised in Kansas City in the 1950s. She is a poet, short story writer, and novelist. She attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where she studied science. She\u00a0went on to a career in medical technology as chief technologist at a children’s hospital in Washington, D.C. It was while working there that Clair became interested in writing. She pursued and achieved her M.F.A. at George Washington University. In 1989 she became an associate professor of English at GWU, retiring from the position in 2008.<\/p>\n

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Rattlebone<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Fiction > African American > Historical<\/div>\n
Author: Maxine Clair<\/div>\n

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