The river where blood is born
Jackson-Opoku, Sandra
The river where blood is born Sandra Kackson-Opoku - New York Ballantine Books 1997 - 401 pages 25 cm
Prologue -- Part I: Headwaters -- Part II: Estuary -- Part III: Backwater -- Part IV: Tributaries -- Part V: Confluence -- Part VI: Watershed -- Epilogue.
This astonishing novel takes us on a journey along the river of one family's history, carving a course across two centuries and three continents, from ancient Africa into today's America. Here, through the lives of Mother Africa's many daughters, we come to understand the real meaning of roots: the captive Proud Mary, who has been savagely punished for refusing to relinquish her child to slavery; Earlene, who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan; Big Momma, a modern-day matriarch who can make a woman of a girl; proud and sassy Cinnamon Brown, whose wild abandon hides a bitter loss; and smart, ambitious Alma, who is torn between the love of a man and the song of her soul. In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen worlds are seamlessly joined--the spirit realms where the great river goddess and ancestor mothers watch over the lives of their descendants, both the living and those not yet born. Stringing beads of destiny, they work to lead one daughter back to her source. But what must Alma sacrifice to honor the River Mother's call?
034539514X 9780345395146
97016504
Goddesses, African--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
African American families
African American women
Goddesses, African
West Indian fiction
Epic fiction.
Fiction
Epic literature.
PS3560.A2473 / R58 1997
813/.54
The river where blood is born Sandra Kackson-Opoku - New York Ballantine Books 1997 - 401 pages 25 cm
Prologue -- Part I: Headwaters -- Part II: Estuary -- Part III: Backwater -- Part IV: Tributaries -- Part V: Confluence -- Part VI: Watershed -- Epilogue.
This astonishing novel takes us on a journey along the river of one family's history, carving a course across two centuries and three continents, from ancient Africa into today's America. Here, through the lives of Mother Africa's many daughters, we come to understand the real meaning of roots: the captive Proud Mary, who has been savagely punished for refusing to relinquish her child to slavery; Earlene, who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan; Big Momma, a modern-day matriarch who can make a woman of a girl; proud and sassy Cinnamon Brown, whose wild abandon hides a bitter loss; and smart, ambitious Alma, who is torn between the love of a man and the song of her soul. In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen worlds are seamlessly joined--the spirit realms where the great river goddess and ancestor mothers watch over the lives of their descendants, both the living and those not yet born. Stringing beads of destiny, they work to lead one daughter back to her source. But what must Alma sacrifice to honor the River Mother's call?
034539514X 9780345395146
97016504
Goddesses, African--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
African American families
African American women
Goddesses, African
West Indian fiction
Epic fiction.
Fiction
Epic literature.
PS3560.A2473 / R58 1997
813/.54