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Wrestling the Gorilla

Wrestling the Gorilla Sarah Kennedy Bankston Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 1, Winter 2007, pp. 11-14 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0004 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432430/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:27 GMT from JHU Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR—DARNELL ARNOULT Wrestling the Gorilla_________________ Sarah Kennedy Bankston Long before she penned Sufficient Grace and What Travels With Us, the foundation was laid for Darnell Arnoult's life as a writer. When she was two years old, her father got himself into a boxing match with a gorilla named Congo, a tale he retold many times. Eventually it became one that she too liked to recount, learning cues for what makes good stories and storytelling. In between the famous boxing match and the stand-up double of two books published in the span of one year were long years involving interrupted schooling, marriage, children, divorce, and a resume with dozens of jobs, most low-paying. Born on December 19, 1955, Darnell Arnoult grew up in the foothills of the Appalachians, in the small bustling industrial town of Martinsville, Virginia, county seat of Henry County, not far from the North Carolina border. Darnell's mother, Juanita, was a beautician who ran http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Wrestling the Gorilla

Bankston, Sarah Kennedy.
Appalachian Review , Volume 35 (1) – Jan 8, 2014
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Sarah Kennedy Bankston Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 1, Winter 2007, pp. 11-14 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0004 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432430/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:27 GMT from JHU Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR—DARNELL ARNOULT Wrestling the Gorilla_________________ Sarah Kennedy Bankston Long before she penned Sufficient Grace and What Travels With Us, the foundation was laid for Darnell Arnoult's life as a writer. When she was two years old, her father got himself into a boxing match with a gorilla named Congo, a tale he retold many times. Eventually it became one that she too liked to recount, learning cues for what makes good stories and storytelling. In between the famous boxing match and the stand-up double of two books published in the span of one year were long years involving interrupted schooling, marriage, children, divorce, and a resume with dozens of jobs, most low-paying. Born on December 19, 1955, Darnell Arnoult grew up in the foothills of the Appalachians, in the small bustling industrial town of Martinsville, Virginia, county seat of Henry County, not far from the North Carolina border. Darnell's mother, Juanita, was a beautician who ran

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