Glorious

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Set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights era, the new historical novel by the acclaimed author of Sugar is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin and, ultimately, revival, offers a candid and true portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty. Based on years of research, this heart-wrenching fictional account is given added resonance by factual events coupled with real and imagined larger-than-life characters.

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"The novel is so intense and sweeping at the same time. Some of the scenes were terrifying, and some were very comic in the irony of what your narrator was experiencing and what she was actually thinking. The word for a journey like this is picaresque, but the ever-impending tragedy makes that word not quite right for this book." --Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales

Author Bio

Bernice L. McFadden is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including the classic Sugar and Nowhere Is a Place, which was a Washington Post Best Fiction title for 2006. She is a two time Hurston/Wright award fiction finalist as well as the recipient of two fiction honor awards from the BCALA. McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York.