"A brilliant mosaic of an African American family and a love song to New Orleans...written with deep insight and devastating honesty but also with grace and beauty." --Dana Johnson, author of Elsewhere, California Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II.
A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history..
For Evelyn, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. decides to start over--until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal.
C.
Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges, T.
He was a square before Hurricane Katrina, but the New Orleans he knew didn\'t survive the storm.
C., loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself.
Jackie\'s son, T.
Jackie must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he\'ll leave again.
Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life.
In 1982, Evelyn\'s daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband\'s drug addiction.
Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. "A brilliant mosaic of an African American family and a love song to New Orleans...written with deep insight and devastating honesty but also with grace and beauty." --Dana Johnson, author of Elsewhere, California Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II
