Mostly White

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Alison Hart. Mostly White

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Praise for Mostly White

“Alison Hart’s debut novel, Mostly White, spans five generations and about one hundred years in a family with American Indian, African American, and Irish roots. It is a uniquely American story showing how people from the cultures and traditions of three continents found themselves together in the North American wilderness, sometimes in conflict and misunderstanding but other times in cooperation and love. Their mixed-race descendants are ordinary yet courageous people who survive against the terrible odds imposed by racism and poverty to pass both sorrow and inner strength down to their children and grandchildren. Hart has written a great American epic, which should be read and discussed for many generations to come.”

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BIRD MAN

Coo of dove calls me, time to keep moving. Father Sun shines through green leaves of trees. My stomach rumbles for food, I spot pink flowers ahead of me. My mama and aunties showed me how to dig up roots and find the nuts. I get a stick and dig out the thickest root of the vine, pull it hard and out comes a necklace of round nuts. I brush them off, eat half and save the rest. I run to tall reeds of grass, sunlight bounces off pointed edges, smell water. Come to edge of riverbank and wait in sunlight, maybe spirit is in water, I drink from it, wait for river to bring my spirit back.

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