Why did Leslie love this book?
I am new to this author, but I look forward to reading her future books. Embers on the Wind is a story where time intersects, and generational families intertwine. It is part Black magical realism and part historical fiction.
This tale, which expertly portrays both the Black and the White experience with a delicate sense of balance, reminds us that the atrocities of slavery are still a part of the American fabric.
Even though years separate now from then, the fabric of time has held onto those memories, whether in actual ghostly form or the collective consciousness. Rosenberg is a brilliant literary fiction writer, and Embers on the Wind will last with me for years to come.
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The past and the present converge in this enthralling, serpentine tale of women connected by motherhood, slavery's legacy, and histories that span centuries.
In 1850 in Massachusetts, Whittaker House stood as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It's where two freedom seekers, Little Annie and Clementine, hid and perished. Whittaker House still stands, and Little Annie and Clementine still linger, their dreams of freedom unfulfilled.
Now a fashionably distressed vacation rental in the Berkshires, Whittaker House draws seekers of another kind: Black women who only appear to be free. Among them are Dominique, a single mother following her grand-mere's stories…