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African American women Fiction African Americans Social life and customs African Americans Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Older people Fiction Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction Quarantine Quarantine Pennsylvania Philadelphia Fiction Retirement communities Fiction Secrecy FictionMcKinney-Whetstone, Diane
Summary: The Gen--short for Sexagenarian--is an upscale fifty-five-plus community located in the bucolic suburbs of Philadelphia. Main character Cynthia befriends the Gen's two other Black residents, Bloc and Tish, as well as Lavia, who everyone assumes is from India. They regularly convene to smoke weed, line dance, and debate politics and philosophy as the wine goes down like silk. Their camaraderie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Diane McKinney-Whetstone's nationally bestselling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia's black community during the Civil Rights era, and she returns to the city in this new historical novel about a cast of nineteenth-century characters whose colorful lives intersect at the legendary Lazaretto--America's first quarantine hospital. Isolated on an island where two rivers meet, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016