Four Spirits (Rumpole Crime)
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (729 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0792730623 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
At the heart of the novel is a sheltered young white college student, raised by genteel aunts, who first witnesses and then joins the freedom movement in the racial hotbed that was Birmingham, Alabama, of the 1960s. Stella s life is forever altered by her new friendships with black women and by the dangerous conflagration engulfing everyone and everything she has known.". In "Four Spirits," Sena Jeter Naslund weaves together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, violent repression and peaceful protest to create an epic tapestry of American social transformation
. The novel is constructed as a series of vignettes that follow a dozen or so characters whose lives finally intersect in entirely credible ways, and who serve as emblems of the divided citizens of Birmingham, some who bitterly fought integration and others who persevered in their struggle for equality. The characters pivot around Stella Silver, a white college student who is horrified by the glee in her community when JFK is assassinated, and who is moved to activism. Naslund, who grew up in Alabama, writes with a deep, instinctiv
Naslund's Triumph Naslund uses her sensuous language to bring alive events surrounding some of the most shameful events in our national history. Her telling of the story of the four little girls bombed to death in a Birmingham church concentrates on those who were there -- those affected by thes. "I always find something new in her writing." according to Leslie. Sena never misses!. "Breathtaking" according to A. C. Hughes. Having lived and grown up in Birmingham, AL during this period of its history, this book was of particular interest to me. Ms. Naslund has captured the flavor, the ectasy, the heartbreak of this time in a very ingenious manner, focusing on the lives of some ten to twelve indivi