Sugar bernice l mcfadden6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() “McFadden packs a powerful punch with tight prose and short chapters that bear witness to key events in early twentieth-century history: both World Wars, the Great Depression, and the Great Migration. This is a story about the triumph of the human spirit over bigotry, intolerance and cruelty, and at the center of The Book of Harlan is the restorative force that is music.” As her saga becomes ever more spellbinding, so does the reader’s astonishment at the magic she creates. Library Journal, included in a collection development section dedicated to 20th century historical fiction ![]() “McFadden uses the experiences of her own ancestors as loose inspiration for the life of Harlan, whom she portrays from his childhood in Harlem through imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and his struggles afterward to put his life back together.” Selected as a Go on Girl! Book Club pick for April 2018 WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)!Ģ017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee (Fiction)! McFadden has been named the Go On Girl! Book Club’s 2018 Author of the Year! ![]()
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