Absalom's Daughters A Novel Author:Suzanne Feldman Two half-sisters, one black and one white, embark on a risky road trip through the 1950s Jim Crow South in this spellbinding story of identity and raceSelf-educated and brown skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother?s laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for ?colored music? and dreams of life as a big city r... more »adio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father?s inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what?s rightly theirs.In an old junk car, with a frying pan, a ham, and a few dollars hidden in a shoe, they set off through the American Deep South of the 1950s, a bewitchingly beautiful landscape as well as one bedeviled by racial striving and violence. Suzanne Feldman's Absalom?s Daughters combines the buddy movie, the coming-of-age tale, and a dash of magical realism to enthrall and move us with an unforgettable, illuminating novel.« less
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