It is a culmination of all the work she had done and all the things she had tried to do in each book. Pretty Pearl expresses her desire to always want to experiment and to challenge herself. This book is Hamilton's ode to and a celebration of parallel cultural mythology and traditions. When Pretty Pearl comes down from the God home of Mount Kenya to live among real people, she discovers the diaspora of the slave trade and forgets all her brother god’s warnings about being true to the goddess within her. New York: Macmillan.Ī fantasy, part myth, part legend and folklore. Her Gothic narrative suggests that, for African Americans, the confrontation with their collective cultural past is almost intolerably painful but also essential in order to face the future and grow.This novel powerfully affirms the values of the African-American family and community symbolized in the church, which has played such a profound role in the road to freedom.' 'Hamilton's most explicit venture into Gothicism.gloriously imbued with specific Gothic effects. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award (“The Edgar”) from Mystery Writers of America 1969

(Oct.Thomas Small and his family move to the great and forbidding House of Dies Drear, a home that was on the Underground Railroad, and trouble begins. Richly textured with a cast of unforgettable characters, this extraordinary novel offers a rare glimpse of unconditional love, family loyalty and compassion. Accented with rivertown dialect, the lyrical narrative will draw readers into the small community of Plain City, down to the bank of stilt houses where Buhlaire resides, to the dimly lit night club where she makes her singing debut, and all the way to the homeless shelter where bittersweet truths come to light. Higgins, the Great Many Thousand Gone ) sketches a vibrant portrait of a gifted 12-year-old of mixed race in search of her identity.

With exceptional grace and honesty, Hamilton ( M. For the first time ever, Buhlaire becomes self-conscious about her ``carrot-honey'' skin, her ``Rasta'' hair and her mother, the famous Bluezy Sims, singer and exotic dancer.

The people she trusted-Mama, Aunt Digna and Uncle Sam-seem to be liars meanwhile, Buhlaire's worst enemy, Grady Terrell, is starting to act friendly. All at once, her life is turned upside down. The revelation that her father is close to home and not ``missing in Nam'' hits Buhlaire-Marie Sims like a bomb.

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