Redwood and Wildfire
Read by
January LaVoy
Release:
02/01/2022
Runtime:
18h 5m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“January LaVoy…embraces the roles, particularly that of Redwood, with an impressive skill. Her delivery allows the listener to enter the girl’s experiences…LaVoy’s skill with the accent of a Southern “swamp dweller” is compelling and adds to the tension that runs through the novel…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A BookPage Top Pick of the Month
Winner of The Otherwise Award
Winner of the Carl Brandon Kindred Award
A Washington Post Pick of the Month
Andrea Hairston's Redwood and Wildfire features blues singers, filmmakers, haints, healers, romance, and magic from Georgia to Chicago!
At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. This "dreaming in public" becomes common culture and part of what transforms immigrants and "native" born into Americans.
Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal and determine the course of today and tomorrow.
At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. This "dreaming in public" becomes common culture and part of what transforms immigrants and "native" born into Americans.
Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal and determine the course of today and tomorrow.
Release:
2022-02-01
Runtime:
18h 5m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593556788
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
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