Bibliograph

Absalom's daughters, a novel, Suzanne Feldman

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Absalom's daughters, a novel, Suzanne Feldman

Language

eng

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other

Main title

Absalom's daughters

Medium

compact disc

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Oclc number

940498730

Responsibility statement

Suzanne Feldman

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Self-educated and brown skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother's laundry in Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for "colored music" and dreams of being a big-city radio 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 on a road trip together to claim what's rightly theirs. In an old junker of a car, with a frying pan, a ham, and a few dollars hidden in a shoe, they set off through the Deep South of the 1950s, a bewitchingly beautiful landscape as well as one bedeviled by racial striving and violence. On one level, the story is an entertaining and quirky caper through a colorful historical landscape, but a deeper cut of the novel reveals its profound engagement with abiding issues of class, race, and identity politics in the uneasy mixed communities of a region haunted by a brutal history. Like Thelma & Louise meets God Help the Child, 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

Target audience

general

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