In the Country of Women by Susan Straight

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/166383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Country of Women Author: Susan Straight Narrator: Donna Postel Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins Release date: 08-06-19 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 66 ratings Genres: Emigration & Immigration Publisher's Summary: In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African-American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write.