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Told in an achingly beautiful voice, Salleys Kitchen conveys the story of a tender first love among brutal racial hatred. Set among the sandhills of a western South Carolina cotton farm it is ripped from the actual events that occurred in that region during the late 1960s. With painstaking realism, the story paints an intense portrait of life as a black person during the Jim Crow Era in the South. Seen through the eyes of a young white boy, lovingly raised since an infant in the southern black culture, his unique point of view articulates his struggle to enter adulthood as a white, black person.

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Bruce Weeks was born in 1954, the year of the Supreme Court Decision, Brown vs Board of Education and reared in the Sandhills Region of Western South Carolina. Growing up on his father's cotton farm in the community of Kitchens Mill in eastern Aiken County, he entered the cotton fields at an early age and worked alongside the African Americas that toiled in his father's fields. Attending Salley Elementary School then Wagener-Salley High School, he left the area in 1972 to attend Clemson University. After three years of academic work he met the love of his life and postponed college to work for Clemson University's Animal Science Department on their Experimental Beef Cattle Farm. In 1993 he went back to college at age 40 and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education. After 5 years in the elementary classroom, he became certified as a 'Highly Qualified' in secondary History and taught in high school and middle school until his retirement in 2012. An avid fan of the Appalachian Trail, he has section hiked the trail from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Damascus, Virginia. He is now working on a trail hostel near his cabin in the mountains of Virginia. A resident of Townville, SC, he and his wife, Jan, also a retired school teacher, have lived there for 40 years. They have two children, Ben and Brooke and three grandchildren that they spoil as much as possible. Owners of three Boykin Spaniels they have found good homes for many little golden eyed puppies. When not writing, Mr. Weeks works on an extended list of 'honey-do's'.

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