The Resource A kind of freedom : a novel, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
A kind of freedom : a novel, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
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The item A kind of freedom : a novel, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
- 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 must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he'll leave again. 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 threa
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- Label
- A kind of freedom : a novel
- Title
- A kind of freedom
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- Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
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- Creoles -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Fiction
- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- African American families
- New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction
- Single mothers -- Fiction
- Marijuana -- Growth -- Fiction
- African American families -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he'll leave again. 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 threa
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- Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson
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- African American families
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- Single mothers -- Fiction
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