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Big Picture, Small Picture: Context for Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love

Big Picture, Small Picture: Context for Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love

On September 28, 1972, Bambara publishes her first collection of short stories, Gorilla, My Love, chronicling the lives and perspectives of African American characters in both urban and rural settings. A New York Times reviewer praises the stories in the debut collection as “tough, violent, funny, and frantically relevant.”