![]() ![]() ![]() Subtract 285 from the year 1904 and you’ll note that Aunt Ester was born in 1619, the year in which the first enslaved Africans arrived in what would become the United States of America. The older man escaped enslavement to Canada by the Underground Railway many years ago, only to immediately return to the United States to help others – and his mission still persists even after the law has ostensibly changed.īut what lifts Wilson’s play up into a top tier of theatrical writing is that otherworld odyssey Citizen goes on in the second act without ever leaving Aunt Ester’s parlour – one assisted in this production by the hidden secrets of Camellia Koo’s set. ![]() Meanwhile, Solly Two Kings (David Alan Anderson), a regular visitor to Aunt Ester’s who restlessly roams the land with a walking stick, refuses to be free while others still are not. Though Gem of the Ocean takes place forty years after the Emancipation Proclamation, few of the Black characters in the play feel free.Ĭitizen, his name reflecting a post-slavery optimism that Jim Crow would quickly peck away at, has escaped outright oppression in his home state of Alabama only to find himself in indentured servitude at a mill in Pennsylvania. But the exact nature of the crime weighing on his conscience only comes out slowly. One day, Citizen (Nathanael Judah) shows up seeking her help, confessing that he has killed a man. Aunt Ester is known as a “washer of souls” in the local Black community, sometimes claiming to be 285 years old. ![]()
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Any given selection was unlikely to thrill the entire group, but a book can do more than entertain-it can also provoke, challenge, educate, or soothe. But how was I to find writing that might entertain everyone? That was the wrong question, I realized. Sharing what we were reading could give us a common language and a cast of characters we all knew. Neither of them had much interest in the fairy tales I loved, and I couldn’t stand most of what they checked out of the library-I struggled to follow their graphic novels and cringed at dense World War I nonfiction, full of descriptions of gory battles and trench foot.Įven so, I was grateful for the time we spent with our books, and loved what it did for us as a family. Once they could read, however, my boys made clear to me that we didn’t enjoy the same stories. ![]() ![]() I’d loved books as a child, and I couldn’t wait to share my favorites with my new little family. ![]() They’d gurgle up at me, chewing their adorable fingers, as I chanted the words to The Real Mother Gooseor When We Were Very Young. As soon as my kids were born, I began reading to them. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she struggles for success and independence, her nightingale voice attracts a dangerous new admirer: the Emperor himself. ![]() Rome offers many ways for the resourceful to survive, and Thea remakes herself as a singer for the Eternal 'City's glittering aristocrats. But when Thea wins the love of Rome's newest and most savage gladiator and dares to dream of a better life, the jealous Lepida tears the lovers apart and casts Thea out. ![]() Purchased as a toy for the spoiled heiress Lepida Pollia, Thea evades her mistress's spite and hones a secret passion for music. 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Very slight foxing, spine panel and cover edges just a trifle browned a very fresh copy, nearly fine. Octavo, original maroon buckram titled in gilt on spine and front panel. Vincent O'Sullivan A BOOK OF BARGAINS Aubrey Beardsley O'SULLIVAN, Vincent. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nell Stevens’s debut novel combines fictionalised biography with an unusual variation on a ghost story. ![]() ![]() As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George’s case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training).Ĭharming, original, and emotionally moving - gorgeous and surprising exploration of artistry, desire, and life after death. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants.īlanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing-a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can’t see her and doesn’t know she exists. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. A playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sands. ![]() ![]() ![]() Never heavy handed with description, but each scene in the novel has a presence that is easily built in the reader’s mind. The Damned continues the thematic elegance and glamour found in The Beautiful and manages to take it up another level. ![]() When Sébastien and Celine meet again, their worlds ignite as truths are revealed and new foes make themselves known.Īhdieh certainly has a way with words. Now, prowling the streets as a vampire, Sébastien must balance the needs of his supernatural family and the unrelenting desire he feels for Celine. Sébastien, on the other hand, cannot stop thinking about the night that Celine gave up her memories in exchange for his life. The constant feeling of being lied to, and that something extraordinary has been taken from her, drives Celine into reckless choices to uncover the truth. And this time, she brought the fey.Ĭeline cannot remember what happened to leave her injured and without her memories, but her nightmares are screaming at her. ![]() ![]() Continuing in the sumptuous footsteps left behind by The Beautiful, Renée Ahdieh returns to the dark and decadent world of New Orleans with The Damned. ![]() ![]() Others, however, feel differently, causing friction within the community.įred, who has been trying to navigate her own feelings of displacement, ends up befriending a few refugees. ![]() Some people in town, like Luca, think it’s great and want to help. ![]() Soon after learning about the baby, Fred hears that the town will be taking in hundreds of refugees seeking safety from a war-torn Kosovo. According to Fred’s teacher, maps don’t always give the full picture of our history, but more and more it feels like Fred’s family is redrawing the line of their story. 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