Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart is a 1990 novel by Joyce Carol Oates that explores race, class, and moral guilt through the intertwined lives of a white girl and a Black boy bound together by a violent crime in 1950s upstate New York.

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