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Wilkinson, Crystal.
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Families, Black -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Kentucky -- Fiction.
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Wilkinson, Crystal.
Families, Black -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Kentucky -- Fiction.
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The
birds
of
opulence
/ Crystal Wilkinson.
by
Wilkinson, Crystal.
University Press of Kentucky, 2018.
Call #:
FICTION WIL
Subjects
Families, Black -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Kentucky -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780813174990 (trade pbk.)
Edition:
Paperback ed.
Description:
202 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The
Birds
of
Opulence
centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona. The residents of
Opulence
struggle with vexing relationships to the land, to one another, and to their own sexuality. As the members of the youngest generation watch their mothers and grandmothers pass away, they live with the fear of going mad themselves and must fight to survive. Crystal Wilkinson offers up
Opulence
and its people in lush, poetic detail. It is a world of magic, conjuring, signs, and spells, but also of harsh realities that only love -- and love that's handed down -- can conquer. At once tragic and hopeful, this captivating novel is a story about another time, rendered for our own."--Goodreads.com
Awards:
Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Weatherford Award for Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Black fiction.
Literary fiction.
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