Their search for a place to be who they want to be is an exhilarating, painful, magical adventure.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Andrea Hairston's Redwood and Wildfire features blues singers, filmmakers, haints, healers, romance, and magic from Georgia to Chicago At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville. This book combines touches of fantasy with a gripping tale about racial divides and struggles at a significant time in US history. Living in a system stacked against them, Redwood and Aidan's power and talent are torment and joy. The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. Andrea Hairstons alternate history adventure, Redwood and Wildfire, is the winner of the Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award.At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures.
Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Andrea Hairstons alternate history adventure, Redwood and Wildfire, is the winner of the Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award. Andrea Hairston's alternate history adventure, Redwood and Wildfire, is the winner of the Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award.Īt the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures.
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