Join us for Eola Road Branch's monthly boo k discussion group. We read a variety of fiction and non-fiction and meet once a month for discussion. Contact discussion leader Elke Lange-Lalos at 630-264-3437 for a copy of the book.
\nFrom the author of the bests
elling Invisible Man - the classic novel of African-American expe
rience - this long awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodi
gal of the 20th century. Brilliantly crafted\, moving and wise\, Junet
eenth is the work of an American master.
Summary
by Goodreads:
Tell me what happened while there's still time\, demand
s the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate preacher whom he calls
Daddy Hickman. As a young man\, Sunraider was Bliss\, an orphan taken in
by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. Bliss's history encom
passes the joys of young southern boyhood\; bucolic days as a filmmaker\,
lovemaking in a field in the Oklahoma sun. And behind it all lies a myster
y: how did this chosen child become the man who would deny everything to a
chieve his goals?
Here is the master of American vernacular at the height of his powers\, evoking the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinar y speech.
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