TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson-Opoku, Sandra
TI  - The river where blood is born
SN  - 034539514X
AV  - PS3560.A2473 R58 1997
U1  - 813/.54 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Goddesses, African
KW  - Fiction
KW  - African American women
KW  - African American families
KW  - fast
KW  - West Indian fiction
KW  - Epic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Epic literature
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Prologue -- Part I: Headwaters -- Part II: Estuary -- Part III: Backwater -- Part IV: Tributaries -- Part V: Confluence -- Part VI: Watershed -- Epilogue
N2  - 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?
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