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< blockquote class =" toccolours " style =" text-align: left ; width: 25 %; float: right ; padding: 10px 15px 10px 15px ; display: table ;">" During the months she spent writing the book, practically withdrew from the world.

She'd set the bar high.

Her ambition was to write a book that would honor the Black experience and affirm the ' human spirit.

' She more than achieved her goal.

She wrote a coming-of-age story that has become a modern classic ".