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The Birds of Opulence - Hardcover

by Crystal Wilkinson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Crystal WilkinsonSeries:Kentucky VoicesPublish date:2016-03-18Pages:216
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813166919ISBN-10:813166918UPC:9780813166919Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Family Life, LiteraryBook Topic:WomenSize:8.60 x 5.80 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SCEGT4WGVT
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, s
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813166919ISBN-10:813166918UPC:9780813166919Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Family Life, LiteraryBook Topic:WomenSize:8.60 x 5.80 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SCEGT4WGVT

Crystal Wilkinson is the author of Blackberries, Blackberries, winner of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature, and Water Street, a finalist for both the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The winner of the 2008 Denny Plattner Award in Poetry from Appalachian Heritage magazine and the Sallie Bingham Award from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, she serves as Appalachian Writer-in-Residence at Berea College and teaches in the Spalding low residency MFA in Creative Writing Program.


Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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