Memphis

Memphis
Author :
Publisher : Dial Press
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780593230497
ISBN-13 : 0593230493
Rating : 4/5 (493 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Memphis by : Tara M. Stringfellow

Download or read book Memphis written by Tara M. Stringfellow and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy. “A rhapsodic hymn to Black women.”—The New York Times Book Review “I fell in love with this family, from Joan’s fierce heart to her grandmother Hazel’s determined resilience. Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, NPR, BuzzFeed, Glamour, PopSugar Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected. As she grows up, Joan finds relief in her artwork, painting portraits of the community in Memphis. One of her subjects is their enigmatic neighbor Miss Dawn, who claims to know something about curses, and whose stories about the past help Joan see how her passion, imagination, and relentless hope are, in fact, the continuation of a long matrilineal tradition. Joan begins to understand that her mother, her mother’s mother, and the mothers before them persevered, made impossible choices, and put their dreams on hold so that her life would not have to be defined by loss and anger—that the sole instrument she needs for healing is her paintbrush. Unfolding over seventy years through a chorus of unforgettable voices that move back and forth in time, Memphis paints an indelible portrait of inheritance, celebrating the full complexity of what we pass down, in a family and as a country: brutality and justice, faith and forgiveness, sacrifice and love.


Memphis Related Books

Memphis
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Tara M. Stringfellow
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-05 - Publisher: Dial Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family
It Came From Memphis
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Robert Gordon
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Gordon's critically acclaimed and richly entertaining exploration of the birthplace of rock and roll is peopled with Delta bluesmen, manic deejays, matinee cowb
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Wanda Rushing
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical
A Massacre in Memphis
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: Stephen V. Ash
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-15 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Mem
Memphis Mayhem
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: David A. Less
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-06 - Publisher: ECW Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Memphis gave birth to music that changed the world — Memphis Mayhem is a fascinating history of how music and culture collided to change the state of music fo