![]() ![]() McFadden’s rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. > Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes.”-Toni Morrison, on The Warmest December This very American story is fascinating it is also heartbreaking, thought-provoking, and beautifully written."-Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of The Scenic Route Bernice McFadden's fully realized characters are complicated, imperfect beings, but if ever a character were worthy of love and honor, it is her Easter Bartlett. "The seeming inevitability of cruel fate juxtaposes the triumph of the spirit in this remarkably rich and powerful novel, Glorious. ![]()
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