{"id":59326,"date":"2019-12-03T02:09:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T02:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59326"},"modified":"2019-12-03T02:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T02:10:48","slug":"the-revisioners-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59326","title":{"rendered":"The Revisioners, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Revisioners, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Counterpoint Press<\/a>
\n2019-11-05
\n288 pages
\n5.5 x 8.25
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781640092587<\/p>\n

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Following her National Book Award<\/a>\u2013 nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom<\/em><\/a>, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton returns with this equally elegant and historically inspired story of survivors and healers, of black women and their black sons, set in the American South<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1924, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan<\/a>, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

Nearly one hundred years later, Josephine\u2019s descendant, Ava, is a single mother who has just lost her job. She moves in with her white grandmother, Martha, a wealthy but lonely woman who pays Ava to be her companion. But Martha\u2019s behavior soon becomes erratic, then threatening, and Ava must escape before her story and Josephine\u2019s converge.<\/p>\n

The Revisioners<\/em> explores the depths of women\u2019s relationships\u2014powerful women and marginalized women, healers and survivors. It is a novel about the bonds between mothers and their children, the dangers that upend those bonds. At its core, The Revisioners<\/em> ponders generational legacies, the endurance of hope, and the undying promise of freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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