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Redwood and wildfire / Andrea Hairston.

by Hairston, Andrea.

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Tordotcom, Tom Doherty Associates, 2022.

Entertainers -- Fiction.

Magic -- Fiction.

Hoodoo (Cult) -- Fiction.

Minorities -- Fiction.

9781250808707 (hc.)

1st Tordotcom ed.

435 p. ; 22 cm.

"At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurers, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal. Living in a system stacked against them, Redwood and Aidan's power and talent are torment and joy. Their search for a place to be who they want to be is an exhilarating, painful, magical adventure"--From publisher.

Otherwise Award, 2011.

Carl Brandon Kindred Award, 2011.

Magic realism (Literature)

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