Prepare for an intense journey that challenges readers to explore profound depths of emotion and experience. The author, known for her powerful storytelling, invites you to confront uncomfortable truths and navigate complex themes. Expect a compelling narrative that pushes boundaries and encourages self-reflection, making it a transformative read for those willing to engage fully with its content.
The story explores the complex relationship between Odessa Blackburn and her estranged mother, Ella Mae, as they navigate the challenges of rebuilding their lives in Mississippi. Faced with the emotional turmoil of family dynamics, adolescence, and isolation from her siblings, Odessa learns to cultivate patience and redefine love in a non-violent way. Their journey reflects themes of resilience, healing, and the struggle to forge a new connection amidst past traumas.
Set against the backdrop of the pre and post Civil War era, the narrative follows three generations of women from Native American and African American backgrounds. Their journeys highlight the struggles for freedom and identity during a tumultuous period in North American history, showcasing resilience and the quest for autonomy amidst societal upheaval. The intertwining of their stories reflects the complex intersections of race, culture, and gender, offering a profound exploration of their lives and challenges.
The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Turner House, and The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois —that explores three generations of a family trying to overcome trials and trauma and free themselves from the darkness of the past. Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a Black nurse who declares, “Lord Jesus, if that ain’t the blackest little baby born this side of heaven.” Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestors’ promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippi’s red clay tobacco fields, and Benjamin Junior, his son and Lottie Rebecca’s father, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where the post Korean War GI Bill promises prosperity. These two generations of men are haunted by the Mother-Spirit who did not survive enslavement’s post-traumatic stress violence. Trinity is the riveting story of the daughter-spirit born to stitch love back into the scattered wombs of her Black mothers and call love back into the fishing blues songs of her Black male kin. Lottie Rebecca Lee is the Divine spirited daughter born to set everything back up right again, in this daringly original novel.
The incredible memoir of the world's most notorious jewel thief, Doris Payne;
shocking, entertaining, hilarious and affecting, this is the true crime
autobiography you cannot miss.
