A Kind of Freedom
Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War Two Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society and when she falls for no name Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves In 1982, Evelyn s daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband s drug addiction Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life Jackie must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he ll leave again Jackie s son, T.C., loves the creative process of growing marijuana than the weed itself He finds something hypnotic about training the seedlings, testing the levels, trimming the leaves, drying the buds He was a square before Hurricane Katrina, but the New Orleans he knew didn t survive the storm, and in its wake he was changed too Now, fresh out of a four month stint for possession with the intent to distribute, he decides to start over until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal For Evelyn, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history. New Download [ A Kind of Freedom ] author [ Margaret Wilkerson Sexton ] – kino-fada.fr Eleanor and her sister Ruby are sisters living in New Orleans As Creoles they have a higher standard of living then many, their father a respected doctor, and as such they escape much of the racism inherent in the South When Eleanor falls for a man, who has nothing, a man not her social equal, her standard of living drops drastically Like her mother she too will have two daughters, and her daughter Jackie will fall in love with a man trying to fight a drug addiction, and their son will spend Eleanor and her sister Ruby are sisters living in New Orleans As Creoles they have a high...They were the children of once upon a time slaves, born into a kind of freedom, but they had traveled down through the wombs with what all their kind had been born with the knowledge that God had promised next week to everyone but themselves Edward P Jones, All Aunt Hagar s Children A Kind of Freedom is a family saga that covers three generations from 1944 through 2011 It is told through the viewpoints of three different narrators each representing different key timeframes in the AmericThey were the children of once upon a time slaves, born into a kind of freedom, but they had traveled down through the wombs with what all their kind had been born with the knowledge that God had promised next week to everyone but themselves Edward P Jones, All Aunt Hagar s Children A Kind of Freedom is a family saga that covers three generations from 1944 through 2011 It is told through the viewpoints of three different narrators each representing different key timeframes in the American Black experience The first of these is Evelyn She comes from a well to do Creole family with high expectations for their daughters It is 1944 nearly 100 years since the abolition of slavery but before the Civil Rights movement America is at war with Nazi Germany ...I love love love this book The author tells a beautifully tragic story of young love, upward mobility, ambition, success, unrealized potential, and even mental illness across three generations of a New Orleans family Throughout, she delicately and expertly balances heavy themes of race, class, and colorism within a moving and suspenseful plot I have read tons of novels and I enjoy jumping into the lives of characters and imagining what might happen when the written story ends While reading, I love love love this book The author tells a beautifully tragic story of young love, upward mobility, ambition, success, unrealized potential, and even mental illness across three generations of a New Orleans family Throughout, she delicately and expertly balances heavy themes of race, class, and colorism within a moving and suspenseful plot I have read tons of novels and I enjoy jumping into the lives of characters and imagining what might happen when the written story ends While reading, I was left wondering worrying even about the characters when I had to put the book down to sleep Upon finishing, I came away a little sad, but mostly hopeful for the characters she portrayed Unlike many novels, th...I picked this book up on a whim after I saw it on the National Book Awards longlist and was also delighted to find it available here in my local library in NZ Set in New Orleans and jumping between three generations of the same family it initially reminded me of another debut novelHomegoingin particular the way both authors trace the effects of racism through multiple generations I thinkA Kind of Freedomdoes this less overtly, however the reader is left in no doubt as to the reasons wh I picked this book up on a whim after I saw it on the National Book Awards longlist and was also delighted to find it available here in my local library in NZ Set in New Orleans and jumping between three generations of the same family it initially reminded me of another debut novelHomegoingin particular the way both authors trace the effects of racism through multiple generations I thinkA Kind of Freedomdoes this less overtly, however the reader is left in no doubt as to the reasons why almost all the men in this novel are worn down and acting out in various ways Despi...Spanning over 70 years, this powerful debut novel follows a Creole woman and her children in New Orleans as they deal with love, addiction, racism, redemption, and the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina It s a stark loo...My entire reading life is spent chasing a specific kind of thrill, the thrill of being so emotionally involved in a story that it has power over me I look for other thrills too but this is the one that I want most, and sometimes I go for long stretches without feeling it I was in that kind of stretch recently I read most of the best b...I was sad when this book ended, and that s saying a lot coming from me because I usually think books are too long I wanted to knowabout each member of this extended creole family The book is set in New Orleans in three time periods and skips back and forth among the stories of the three main protagonists In 1944 Evelyn is attending nursing school She and her two siblings are the children of a doctor Her father has ambitions for her which go awry when Evelyn falls in love with Renard, I was sad when this book ended, and that s saying a lot coming from me because...Nominated for the National Book Award 2017 Move over, Jonathan Franzen, this is only Margaret Wilkerson Sexton s first book and she already wrote a blues version of the Great American Novel Set in the author s hometown of New Orleans and spanning from 1944 until 2010, A Kind of Freedom tells the story of three generations of a black family The protagonists are confronted with ...4 I finished A Kind of Freedom right before my first visit to New Orleans a few days ago The novel is about three generations of families in New Orleans during WWII, in the 80s and the present post Katrina Sexton writes well, exploring their li...Sexton takes us from World War II New Orleans through 2010 by tracing the adventures of a family The story begins with twenty two year old Evelyn, who s studying to become a nurse, then to Jackie Marie who married her high school sweetheart, and finally to her son T C Like most people s lives there experience is alternately happy and sad but a thread that runs through out the book are relationships between the women especially sisters and how they can be loving and enriching whole also compet Sexton takes us from World War II New Orleans through 2010 by tracing the adventures of a family The story begins with twenty two year old Evelyn, who s studying to become a nurse, then to Jackie Marie who married her high school sweetheart, and finally to her son T C Like most people s lives there experience is alternately happy and sad but a thread that runs through out the book are relationships between the women especially sisters and how they can be loving and enriching whole also competitive Of course bec...
- 08 May 2018 Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- Hardcover
- 256 pages
- 1619029227
- Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- A Kind of Freedom