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Sunday in June
by
Phyllis Alesia Perry
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Price: $23.95
Hardcover
324 pages
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Description:
A stunning, haunting meditation on
the soul of the South -- in the
spirit of Toni Morrison and Gloria
Naylor -- that explores the lives
of three African-American sisters
born with the gift of seeing into
the past and future.
The 20th century has just begun
in the South and slavery still
haunts. In a deep-woods region of
Alabama, the tightening noose of
Jim Crow is a rude indication of
what white people really think of
black people's "freedom."
Still, the black population of
Johnson Creek, Alabama, manages to
live their lives with abiding faith
and hope.
The Mobley's -- Frank and Joy --
are among those who have pinned
high hopes both on the future, and
on their three daughters, Grace,
Mary Nell, and Eva -- hopes for
good marriages and noble
professions. Joy and Frank believe
that the Negroes of Johnson Creek
have just as much right to advance
as anybody up North. But they must
let go of the old ways. So they can
only react with dismay when their
girls show signs that they have
"the sight" -- the gift
of seeing the unseen, of knowing
the past and future. Through their
daughters' growing strangeness, Joy
and Frank glimpse again the world
of Joy's deceased mother, the
former slave Ayo. While they do
everything possible to discourage
their daughters' connection with
the past and future, the gift is
not something that you can always
give back and trying comes at a
dear price.
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