"In the early 1970s Virginia King, a young black actress whose avante-garde theater troupe has recently fallen apart, returns to her industrial Midwestern hometown as artist-in-residence teaching puppetry to schoolchildren. But coming home also means coming to terms with unsettling memories and with disturbing truths about her secretive family."@en
"In the early 1970s Virginia King, a young black actress whose avante-garde theater troupe has recently fallen apart, returns to her industrial Midwestern hometown as artist-in-residence teaching puppetry to schoolchildren. But coming home also means coming to terms with unsettling memories and with disturbing truths about her secretive family."
"In 1987 Rita Dove became one of the youngest writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry - and only the second African-American to do so. Now in her radiant first novel, Dove combines her remarkable storytelling ability with what critic Arnold Rampersad has praised in her poetry as an "almost uncanny sense of peace and grace.""