Summary Of The Marigolds By Eugenia Collier

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Have you ever read the Marigolds? It’s a book about the great depression of the 1930s. Millions of Americans experienced poverty due to widespread unemployment. The African Americans were particular affected by weak economy. The Marigolds is written by Eugenia Collier that was raised in Baltimore Maryland. She became a college professor and began writing. She was working for the department of public welfare. I believe that it was a good day on September where there was dirt roads and grassless yards. Whenever the memory flashes across her mind a strange nostalgia comes and reminds her when the picture had faded. When she think of the home town of her youth all that she remember is the brown crumbly dust. Of the late summer arid, sterile

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