โ Scribed by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
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An ABA Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce Selection
A SIBA Summer 2017 Okra Pick
"[A] portrait of a family and a richly layered exploration of their sufferings . . .This remarkable debut marks Margaret Wilkerson Sexton as a writer worth watching." โChicago Review of Books, 1 of 12 books to read this August
Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.
In 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life.
Jackie's son, T.C., loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina, but the New Orleans he...
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