Head, Bessie, with Linda Susan Beard. Interview in Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, Vol. III, No. 2, Fall, 1986, pp. 44-7.

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 The picture is 'distorted', having a 'fluid, watery form' almost like it is not fully developed."

Thorpe, Michael. "Treasures of the Heart: The Short Stories of Bessie Head," in World Literature Today, Vol. 57, No. 3, Summer, 1983, pp. 414-6.