Release Date: April 12, 2022
About The Book:
A week after Easter 1973—following the lynching of Black church sexton Sam Jefferson—Lily Vida Wallace is dropped like an immigrant into Greenville, South Carolina. After returning home to Manhattan, Lily continues theological studies in anticipation of the overturn of a centuries-old, males-only priesthood and simultaneously struggles with her erratic engagement. When her fiancé flees following discovery of professional impropriety and Atlanta attorney Rodney Davis lands in her path, a new love grows—accelerating Lily’s understanding even as it challenges her naïveté about race.
Some two decades later, high-profile interracial nuptials in Oakland, California, become the occasion for a reunion between the now Reverend Vida and Lucius Clay, the fiery journalist she met in South Carolina. Within weeks of their re-meeting, Lucius is dispatched to cover Black church burnings—beginning with Lily’s hometown in Texas.
About The Author:
POLLY HAMILTON HILSABECK was in the second wave of women ordained priest in the Episcopal Church in 1985 in the Diocese of Los Angeles and currently lives with her husband in Durham, North Carolina. https://www.pollyhamiltonhilsabeck.com/
Book Blurbs:
“Hilsabeck’s prose is vivid and urgent . . .” —Kirkus Reviews
“The blues are black folks’ breathing through the grisly legacies of white malevolence and grotesque bloodlust in America. American Blues gives readers a haunting glimpse into the casual and sustained brutality of white supremacy.”—Pierce Freelon, writer, composer, and codirector of The History of White People in America
“A heartfelt chorus of narrative voices about decades of racial violence in America.”
—Susan Straight, author of The Gettin Place and In the Country of Women
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