Out of the Night That Covers Me

English

ISBN: 1587240955

EAN: 9781587240959

Category: Fiction / General/Fiction / African American / General/

Publisher: Cengage Gale

Release Date: 09/01/2001

Synopsis: Eight-year-old John Gallatin McMillan III was the center of his mothers world, cloistered and pampered, until she unexpectedly died. Taken away by his one remaining relative, his aunt, Johns home is a run-down tenant farm in the heart of the Alabama Black Belt. There he is thrust into a life alien to anything he has ever known, working long hours in the fields for his violent, alcoholic uncle. As John fights for his survival, he comes to identify with the poor blacks he encounters, and imagines that his salvation lies in escape to Chicago, just as they feel that their own survival depends on going north to a new life. John meets Mama Tuway, a powerful black healer; Ella, a young mother damaged by the ravages of abuse; and Tuway, a man straddling the black and white cultures and leading a dangerous double life. But none of them will be ready for the brutal confrontation between blacks and whites, and how it will foreshadow the historic struggle about to sweep across the country.

Out of the Night That Covers Me

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Weight: 21.16 oz

Pages: 434