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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton~A KIND OF FREEDOM~SIGNED COPY
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- ISBN
- 9781619029224
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
ISBN-10
1619029227
ISBN-13
9781619029224
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235068028
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kind of Freedom : a Novel
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
African American / Contemporary Women, African American / General, Family Life, African American / Historical
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-015331
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A
Reviews
"Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's A Kind of Freedom is an elegant, captivating, and generous debut novel. I'm still thinking about how our choices are indelibly influenced by our familial histories, whether we're aware or not, and how the present connects to the past, especially regarding the societal weight of race and class. Through the interweaving of narratives within a family in New Orleans, particularly a matrilineal generation of sisters--from 1944 to the 80s and beyond--Wilkerson Sexton demonstrates the complex web of fate, and how the demands and risks of human longing can be pitted against practicality and upward mobility, muddying the very definitions of success when it comes to survival and love. Our lives are intertwined, Wilkerson Sexton reveals, and despite our best selves and our most loving intentions, heartbreak is often inevitable. With seemingly effortless subtlety and command, Wilkerson Sexton delivers. A Kind of Freedom is multifaceted and beautiful." --Victoria Patterson, author of This Vacant Paradise and The Little Brother "I give thanks to Margaret Wilkerson Sexton for her remarkable sense of a family's life, from early in its morning to day's end. She interweaves generations of parent-child relations to reveal, with sharp insight, how promise and possibility can sometimes yield to circumstances shaped by the limits to freedom." --Lauret Savoy, author of Trace, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton s A Kind of Freedom is an elegant, captivating, and generous debut novel. I m still thinking about how our choices are indelibly influenced by our familial histories, whether we re aware or not, and how the present connects to the past, especially regarding the societal weight of race and class. Through the interweaving of narratives within a family in New Orleans, particularly a matrilineal generation of sisters from 1944 to the 80s and beyond Wilkerson Sexton demonstrates the complex web of fate, and how the demands and risks of human longing can be pitted against practicality and upward mobility, muddying the very definitions of success when it comes to survival and love. Our lives are intertwined, Wilkerson Sexton reveals, and despite our best selves and our most loving intentions, heartbreak is often inevitable. With seemingly effortless subtlety and command, Wilkerson Sexton delivers. A Kind of Freedom is multifaceted and beautiful. Victoria Patterson, author of This Vacant Paradise and The Little Brother ", Praise for A Kind of Freedom "Margaret Wilkerson Sexton'sA Kind of Freedom is a brilliant mosaic of an African American family and a love song to New Orleans. Her characters are all of us, America's family, written with deep insight and devastating honesty but also with grace and beauty. Wilkerson's stunning debut illuminates the journey of sisters and the generations they bear, the hope they have for the future, and the future still strived for, still deferred, giving us all of this in razor-edged prose that is cuts to the quick." -Dana Johnson, author ofIn theNot Quite Dark andElsewhere, California "Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's A Kind of Freedom is an elegant, captivating, and generous debut novel. I'm still thinking about how our choices are indelibly influenced by our familial histories, whether we're aware or not, and how the present connects to the past, especially regarding the societal weight of race and class. Through the interweaving of narratives within a family in New Orleans, particularly a matrilineal generation of sisters-from 1944 to the 80s and beyond-Wilkerson Sexton demonstrates the complex web of fate, andhow the demands and risks of human longing can be pitted against practicality and upward mobility, muddying the very definitions of success when it comes to survival and love. Our lives are intertwined, Wilkerson Sexton reveals, and despite our best selves and our most loving intentions, heartbreak is often inevitable. With seemingly effortless subtlety and command, Wilkerson Sexton delivers. A Kind of Freedom is multifaceted and beautiful." -Victoria Patterson, author of This Vacant Paradise and The Little Brother "I give thanks to Margaret Wilkerson Sexton for her remarkable sense of a family's life, from early in its morning to day's end. She interweaves generations of parent-child relations to reveal, with sharp insight, how promise and possibility can sometimes yield to circumstances shaped by the limits to freedom." -Lauret Savoy, author of Trace
Synopsis
Longlisted for the National Book Award A New York Times Notable Book The moving, multi-generational debut novel from the author of On the Rooftop , a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick "Brilliantly juxtaposing World War II, the '80s and post-Katrina present, Sexton follows three generations of a Black New Orleans family as they struggle to bloom amid the poison of racism." -- People Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. 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 knew didn't survive the storm. For Evelyn, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's critically acclaimed debut is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history., A Kind of Freedom weaves a multi-generational tale of the black community through a New Orleans family: a grandmother's lush and teeming early life; her adult daughter's broken family; and her grandson's persistent brushes with the law, his attempts at good choices even when he isn't presented with any. Audrey is a Creole woman born at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society and when she falls for a no name Negro, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Audrey's daughter, Zara, is a frazzled single mother. Unable to accept her husband's abandonment, she aims her resentment at her father's mistress. When she works up the gall to confront the woman, she discovers she has a half sister. The two strike up a secret friendship that empowers Zara, but when the sisters' bond implodes, Zara finds herself on her own once again, forced to grieve her husband's absence alone. Zara's son, Lil Joe, loves the creative process more than the weed itself. He finds something hypnotic about training the seedlings, testing the levels, trimming the leaves, drying the buds. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina, but the New Orleans he knew didn't survive the storm, and in its wake he became somebody different, too. Now, fresh out of a four-month stint for possession with the intent to distribute, he decides to begin anew until an old friend convinces him to stake his new peace on one last deal. The generational decline within the family parallels Black society's at large; despite the abolishment of Jim Crow and the rise of civil rights, schools are re-segregating and large segments of the black community are marginalized through incarceration. Sexton has written an urgent novel which at once explores and seeks to repair this troubling societal arc through a narrative that sweeps deftly through the decades., A 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "This luminous and assured first novel shines an unflinching, compassionate light on three generations of a black family in New Orleans, emphasizing endurance more than damage." --The New York Times Book Review , Editors' Choice 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 knew didn't survive the storm. Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges, T.C. decides to start over--until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal. For Evelyn, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history., A moving tale of love and the consequences of American racial disparity spanning three generations of a New Orleans family, Long-listed for the National Book Award * Winner of the Crook's Corner Prize * Winner of the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association * A New York Times Notable Book This debut novel from the author of On the Rooftop , a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick, "brilliantly . . . follows three generations of a Black New Orleans family as they struggle to bloom amid the poison of racism" ( People ). Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. 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 knew didn't survive the storm. For Evelyn, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's critically acclaimed debut is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history.
LC Classification Number
PS3619.E9838K56 2017
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