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Angel of Greenwood Paperback – May 10, 2022
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Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink is a piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the “Black Wall Street,” and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family’s financial situation is in turmoil.
Though they’ve attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can’t turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon.
But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the Black community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Only then, Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are.
- Reading age12 - 17 years
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level7 - 9
- Lexile measure770L
- Dimensions5.37 x 0.75 x 8.2 inches
- PublisherSquare Fish
- Publication dateMay 10, 2022
- ISBN-101250821290
- ISBN-13978-1250821294
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“The romantic love in [Angel of Greenwood] is big and beautiful and pure. And beyond the love between two teenagers, there's a deep love of community and home. Greenwood feels so wholesome, so idyllic, and when the hate breaks through, it will break your heart....I hope teachers assign this in schools and librarians turn it face-out on the shelves. American kids need to know this history to be good citizens.” ―National Public Radio (NPR)
"Rich in its discussion of Black literature, this novel brilliantly juxtaposes a lighthearted story of young Black love with a deft reminder that such beauty has often been violently seized from Black people, and that these instances deserve remembrance." ―Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The tragedy of Greenwood is made especially palpable here not only in the depiction of the violence but also in the portrayal of the thriving, successful, neighborly place that it is before the massacre. [Isaiah and Angel's] romance gives a touch of softness to what ultimately feels like a timely cautionary tale for the nation’s current racial reckoning." ―Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"The climax of the book is utterly devastating, tragic, and heartbreaking. Pink reclaims untold stories from the past, giving names and faces to the lives stolen a century ago in moving and vivid detail, while still managing to engender hope and survival, a message that will certainly hit differently for different readers." ―Culturess
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- Publisher : Square Fish (May 10, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250821290
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250821294
- Reading age : 12 - 17 years
- Lexile measure : 770L
- Grade level : 7 - 9
- Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.37 x 0.75 x 8.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #17,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author
A native and resident of Birmingham, AL, Randi Pink leverages her unique experience with her southern roots when she writes. Randi is a mother, a writer, an advocate, a fighter, a friend, and so much more. Through a platform of encouragement, advice, and love, Randi loves connecting with the community around her and her loyal community of readers.
After publishing her first novel, Randi got right to work on her second novel, “Girls Like Us”. Inspired by the passing of shocking policies for abortion and other threats to women’s rights in her home state as well as her nation, Randi decided it was time to humanize the faces behind abortion. “Girls Like Us” hit shelves in 2019 followed by "Angel of Greenwood" in 2021 and "We Are The Scribes" in 2022.
Randi continues to write every day, and can be found promoting her next book, in her garden, and soaking up family time with her favorite people.
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Customers find the book's pacing powerful and humanizing. They describe it as a wonderful, unforgettable read that brings tragic history to life through a love story. Readers appreciate the captivating characters and the change of perspective between the main characters.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2021Inside Greenwood, a prosperous, tightknit, Black neighbourhood in 1921, Isaiah and Angel are dealing with the hardships of life, growing up, finding who they are and falling in love. On May 31st, 1921, twelve days later, in the early hours of the morning, Greenwood, the place that has nurtured the both of them, is burning. A mob of white men and women destroying and looting what the community had built for itself.
“Greenwood was burning. The only space for Black Tulsans in the white imagination had become too successful. Too much of a threat, so now it, too, was being taken away…”
This book hurt to read. The writing sweeping between sleepy, dreamy and aching. The divide between black Greenwood and white Tulsa ever present in the minds of Greenwood residents. The uniqueness of their community, the thriving, close sense of community strung tightly through the book. The journey of the two main characters Isaiah and Angel, soft and new. These elements combined make the impending events of the Greenwood massacre all the more heartbreaking.
The first 50-60% of the book, though consisting throughout of short chapters, can feel slow paced. You almost forget what it’s all leading up to, getting lost in the lives of Isaiah and Angel, their personal struggles and growth, who they want to be, how to get there, their still forming beliefs, their interactions with their neighbours, all looking out for them. Contrasts sharply with the horrific and sickening dismemberment of their district.
“Logic told her that they’d certainly target the thriving community center. That was the whole point, she’d long surmised, to steal it all. Possess that which didn’t belong to them, from the drugs in Williams Drugstore, to the carvings in Mr. Morris’s woodshop, for the people of Greenwood to continue to serve at their leisure.”
The characters are flawed but you can’t help but feel a sense of compassion for them in their inner most desires, hopes and their will to change, be kind, brave and helpful. There’s a wisdom, understanding, patience and vulnerability to the surrounding community. You feel their connection, their complications and their love. They created a powerfully tragic and humanising stage for the events of the massacre to unfold, giving a voice lost in the real events.
“Those screams belonged to her church members, her classmates, her teachers, her doctors. They belonged to the people who made up the beautiful and complicated periphery of her lovely life.”
It is heartbreaking to think that the real-life events of the Tulsa Massacre were neither the first, last or worst of the struggle for Black Americans. That this event was not widely taught about. That the long reach of these kinds of cruelty, racism, unfairness and injustice are too often not recognised. I was so moved by this book. I couldn’t recommend it enough.
5/5 – A story of love, self-discovery and tragedy.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2023I loved this book. I really enjoyed the change of perspective between the main characters. This is a book that I will buy for my classroom library.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2021What words do you have for a book that had you clutching it to your chest at the end? This book is a fictional account, but the 1921 attack on Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma actually happened. Isaiah Wilson is a seventeen year old growing up in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, known around town as a big troublemaker, but hidden deep inside is he loves W.E.B. Du Bois, avid reader and carries his journal everywhere he goes. Angel, sixteen is seen as a bible toting church girl, quiet and stays to herself. Deep down she is a huge Booker T. Washington follower and smart.
Randi Pink gave this horrific riot back in 1921 so much justice as her words were well displayed, characters flowed like water and you felt what it was like back in the 1920s. My heart broke so many times because racism still exists today in 2021. Reading about this riot and how a black town of good , hardworking, back breaking people was destroyed by a racist mob. I loved Isaiah and Angel as people because they were some of the best characters i've ever came across. They weren't just average teenagers, but they give us life, happiness, forgiveness, love and most of all motivation to move forward never to give up. Just read the book!!
- Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2021This was a pretty good read. I think this would be a great book for young readers to learn about the Tulsa race massacre.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2021It might be too early to say this, but I think Angel of Greenwood will become one of my favorite books of 2021.
The YA novel follows two Angel and Isaiah, two young Black people living in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma in the days leading up to the Tulsa Race Riot and massacre. The two come together for a summer job running a mobile library, delivering books to poorer black areas. Despite early contention and philosophical differences (Angel is a follower of the more conservative Booker T. Washington; Isaiah prefers the teachings of the more revolutionary WEB De Bois) the two fall in love as the world around them begins to catch fire.
Pink's prose is a beautiful amalgamation of poetry and philosophy, and it's hard not to be stirred by her words. Her characters breathe from within the pages, and the Greenwood she rebuilds is as vibrant and tangible as the community around me (perhaps more so--I've been quarantining since March). I read Angel of Greenwood in one sitting, even as my back grew sore and my legs cramped, and upon finishing I immediately ordered a copy for my shelves. I then sat for hours, thinking of how Angel and Isaiah's stories answer the question posed by Angel's father in the opening, and show how mercy and truth have and must intertwine.
I received an advance copy of Angel of Greenwood from Netgalley and Feiwel & Friends (MacMillan Publishing Group) in exchange for my honest review.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2023SUCCESS IS TO BE MEASURED NOT SO MUCH BY THE POSITION THAT ONE HAS REACHED IN LIFE AS BY THE OBSTACLES WHICH HE HAS OVERCOME. —BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
I WAS BORN FREE. —W.E.B. DU BOIS
- Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2021This story allows us to learn a tragic history through the eyes of a love story. Fictional characters are used to teach us factual history similar to "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck or the movie "Titanic". This book should be read in Oklahoma History classes across the state or American History classes across the nation.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2021I wanted to love this book. It’s an excellent idea. I should have cried while reading it, except the writing broke every rule— too much telling, not enough showing; alternating voices that weren’t distinct enough to sound different; teenagers who read like 25 year-olds. I deeply wish someone would have spent more time crafting this. Perfect concept, imperfect execution.