Flying Home Material:Paperback was my life

was my life

she’s certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton—if only she can wrap her head around the idea of magicians

and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment

Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood these words all too well

Flying Home Material:Paperback was my lifeWritten between 1937 and 1954 and now available in paperback for the first time, these thirteen stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison. Six of them remained unpublished during Ellison's lifetime and were discovered among the author's effects in a folder labeled "Early Stories." But they all bear the hallmarks the thematic reach, musically layered voices, and sheer ebullience that Ellison would bring to his classic Invisible