American Blues

A week after Easter 1973--following the lynching of Black church sexton Sam Jefferson--Lily Vida Wallace is dropped...
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Author: Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck
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Language: English
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American Blues by Hilsabeck, Polly Hamilton

American Blues

$30.71

American Blues

$30.71
Author: Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A week after Easter 1973--following the lynching of Black church sexton Sam Jefferson--Lily Vida Wallace is dropped like an immigrant into Greenville, South Carolina. After returning home to Manhattan, Lily continues theological studies in anticipation of the overturn of a centuries-old, males-only priesthood and simultaneously struggles with her erratic engagement. When her fiancé flees following discovery of professional impropriety and Atlanta attorney Rodney Davis lands in her path, a new love grows--accelerating Lily's understanding even as it challenges her naïveté about race.


Some two decades later, high-profile interracial nuptials in Oakland, California, become the occasion for a reunion between the now Reverend Vida and Lucius Clay, the fiery journalist she met in South Carolina. Within weeks of their re-meeting, Lucius is dispatched to cover Black church burnings--beginning with Lily's hometown in Texas.


Writer Hilton Als recently commented: "We need to wake up to the fact that America is not one story. It is many, many, many stories." American Blues offers no neat resolution. Instead, its timely story invites, as it tangles with, readers' own assumptions and complex experiences of race and gender in America.

Author: Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 04/12/2022
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781647420772

About the Author
Hilsabeck, Polly Hamilton: - Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck was in the second wave of women ordained priest in the Episcopal Church in 1985 in the Diocese of Los Angeles. She currently lives with her husband in Durham, North Carolina.

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