{"id":6229,"date":"2010-08-29T05:15:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T05:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2010-11-11T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T19:40:00","slug":"take-one-candle-light-a-room-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6229","title":{"rendered":"Take One Candle, Light a Room: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307379146\" target=\"_blank\">Take One Candle, Light a Room: A Novel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/pantheon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pantheon Books<\/a> an Imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\">Random House<\/a><br \/>\n2010-10-12<br \/>\n336 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-307-37914-6 (0-307-37914-0)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanstraight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Straight<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Creative Writing<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Riverside<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307379146\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/covers_450\/9780307379146.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her southern California home most of the time. When she returns to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her close friend Glorette, she finds herself pulled into the tumultuous life of Glorette\u2019s twenty-one-year-old son, Victor. After getting involved in a shooting, Victor\u2014 Fantine\u2019s godson\u2014has fled to Louisiana. Together with her father, Fantine follows Victor, determined to help him avoid the criminal future that he suddenly seems destined for.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBut Fantine\u2019s own fate will be altered on this journey as well: her father will reveal the wrenching secrets of his past, and she will be compelled to question the most essential choices she\u2019s made in her life. And all three characters will come face-to-face with the issues of race that beset them: Fantine, whose light black skin has eased her way in the world; her father, who grew up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow<\/a> South; and Victor, whose fall into violence mirrors the path of so many other black men his age.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Take One Candle, Light a Room<\/em> is a powerfully moving story about the intricacies of human connection, and about the ways in which we find a place for ourselves within our families and the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take One Candle, Light a Room: A Novel Pantheon Books an Imprint of Random House 2010-10-12 336 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-307-37914-6 (0-307-37914-0) Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her southern California home most of the time. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,15],"tags":[2582,861,2580],"class_list":["post-6229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-new-media","category-novels","tag-pantheon-books","tag-random-house","tag-susan-straight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}