SOURCE: "Bright Books of Life: The Black Norm in Anne Tyler's Novels," in The Southern Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 1, Fall, 1992, pp. 7-13.
In the following essay, Petry discusses how Tyler uses black characters as repositories of wisdom and knowledge in her novels.
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