At the Oxfam shop

Back,  after two Wednesdays when it was closed.  Quite a lot of muddle to wade through, but eventually got to pull together all the fiction donations, most of which were really good. I bought two books, shown here.  I loved Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl Woman Other.  This one was written earlier - it’s recently been made into an acclaimed TV programme which I of course missed. 
The other book was published in 1972.:The writer Gil Scott-Heron might be familiar to you - he was a US jazz poet, powerful and political blacks rights campaigner, a spoken- word performer with soul, jazz and  blues accompaniment. I was lucky enough to see a few times in the late 70s and 80s. His best known work was “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” I hadn’t known he also wrote a novel. I felt we could probably not sell it because of the title, and tried to google some advice on this. A word which he used in anger in 1972, and was then understood in that context, cannot now be expressed -  I found some guidelines from NAACP in the US. They said - the use of the word is derogatory, dehumanising and degrading, and is one of the most offensive words in history. and should not be used even in artistic context. Fair enough.  I wasn’t going to put out the book in a public place. But I did want to buy it for myself  as I want to read what he was thinking about 50 plus years ago . 
In other news, I’m thinking of leaving the Oxfam shop, as - apart from looking through the donations for gems - I’m not enjoying any more. I’ve been there 7 years.  As I usually do with a big decision, I’m writing down the pros and cons to help me decide.