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Judy Juanita
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PUBLISHED: Apr.22.2013

Virgin Soul

“We called it City, a raggedy, in-the-flatlands, couldn’t-pass-the-earthquake code, stimulating, politically popping repository of blacks who couldn’t get to college any other way, whites who had flunked out of the University of California, and anybody else shrewd enough to go free for two years and transfer to Berkeley, credits zapped.” So it is that, one month out of high...

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May.23.2012 - 8:53 pm

In response to: Sometimes, Is it Just a Black Thing???

black language, white language, plain old language

I recently read ten pages from my novel at my college and was stunned afterward to realize the impact of curse words...

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Article: The Funny in the Novel

Judy Juanita's novel Virgin Soul should be required reading for anyone studying the vicissitudes of recent American history.”

—Allison Joseph, Crab Orchard Review

About Judy

Novelist, poet and playwright. Debut novel about the gradual radicalization of a young black woman in the black power movement of the 60s published by Viking in 2013. Many parts excerpted in Crab Orchard Review, November 3rd Club, Imagination and Place: an...

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