A kind of freedom : a novel
Wilkerson Sexton, Margaret
A kind of freedom : a novel / Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. - First Counterpoint hardcover edition. - Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint , c2017 - 230 pages ; 24 cm
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.
English
9781619029224
African American families----Fiction
Single mothers----Fiction
Marijuana---Fiction
Creoles---Fiction
New Orleans (LA)----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PS3619.E9838 / K56 2017
FIC SEX
A kind of freedom : a novel / Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. - First Counterpoint hardcover edition. - Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint , c2017 - 230 pages ; 24 cm
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.
English
9781619029224
African American families----Fiction
Single mothers----Fiction
Marijuana---Fiction
Creoles---Fiction
New Orleans (LA)----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PS3619.E9838 / K56 2017
FIC SEX
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