McFadden's writing breaks the heart-and then heals it again. Literary Hub, one of Nicole Dennis-Benn's 26 Books From the Last Decade that More People Should Read The Book of Harlan brilliantly explores questions about agency, purpose, freedom, and survival. It's complex, real, and raw.McFadden intricately and purposefully weaves history as a backdrop in her fiction. McFadden took me on a melodious literary journey through time and place in her masterpiece, The Book of Harlan. This is a story about the triumph of the human spirit over bigotry, intolerance and cruelty, and at the center of The Book of Harlan is the restorative force that is music.īernice L. Simply miraculous.As her saga becomes ever more spellbinding, so does the reader's astonishment at the magic she creates.
McFadden uses the experiences of her own ancestors as loose inspiration for the life of Harlan, whom she portrays from his childhood in Harlem through imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and his struggles afterward to put his life back together. WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)Ģ017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee (Fiction)
McFadden has been named the Go On Girl Book Club's 2018 Author of the Year
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