The Hottest Water in Chicago - Softcover

Los Angeles Times Book Review"

Essence"

Publishers Weekly"

A thinking woman's autobiography. An unusual and engaging work, consistently honest and constructive. Los Angeles Times Book Review"

Smart, irreverent and righteously indignant. Pemberton has an eye for the absurd and a talent for expressing the ironies of growing up black in white America. The Hottest Water in Chicago chronicles the sting of racism and the survival of one family's spirit. Essence"

This is luminous social history, at once familiar and transcendent. Publishers Weekly"

-A thinking woman's autobiography. An unusual and engaging work, consistently honest and constructive.- --Los Angeles Times Book Review

-Smart, irreverent and righteously indignant. Pemberton has an eye for the absurd and a talent for expressing the ironies of growing up black in white America. The Hottest Water in Chicago chronicles the sting of racism and the survival of one family's spirit.---Essence

-This is luminous social history, at once familiar and transcendent.---Publishers Weekly

"A thinking woman's autobiography. An unusual and engaging work, consistently honest and constructive."-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

GAYLE PEMBERTON was born in Saint Paul Minnesota. She has a B.A in English from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Harvard University. She has taught as Smith College, Columbia University, Middlebury College, Northwestern University, Reed College and Bowdin College. She was associate director of African American studies at Princeton before joining Wesleyan in 1994 as chair of the African American studies program and William R. Kenan Professor of the Humanities in the English Department. She currently is under contract with W.W. Norton for a book entitled And the Colored Girls Go...: Black Women and American Cinema.