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Pretty Fire
Written by Charlayne Woodard
Narrated by Charlayne Woodard
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph. This NAACP award-winning play is a one-woman tour de force. Chosen as a “Recommended Young Adult Audiobook” by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. Pretty Fire is the first play of a trilogy that continued with Neat and ended with In Real Life.
An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Charlayne Woodard.
An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Charlayne Woodard.
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Reviews for Pretty Fire
Rating: 4.875 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A beautiful one-woman play, autobiographical, about an African-American woman and her family. Includes five stories that cross the decades, including her own birth story, the first time she saw a burning cross, surviving a sexual assault, and more. I'd love to see this one performed live.