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Four spirits a novel

This story weaves together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, violent repression and peaceful protest to create an epic tapestry of American social transformation. At the heart of the novel is a sheltered young white college student, raised by genteel aunts, who first witnesses and then joins the freedom movement in the racial hotbed that was Birmingham, Alabama of the 1060s. Stella's life is forever altered by her new friendships with black women and by the dangerous conflagration engulfing everyone and everything she has known.

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  • "This story weaves together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, violent repression and peaceful protest to create an epic tapestry of American social transformation. At the heart of the novel is a sheltered young white college student, raised by genteel aunts, who first witnesses and then joins the freedom movement in the racial hotbed that was Birmingham, Alabama of the 1060s. Stella's life is forever altered by her new friendships with black women and by the dangerous conflagration engulfing everyone and everything she has known."@en
  • "This story weaves together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, violent repression and peaceful protest to create an epic tapestry of American social transformation. At the heart of the novel is a sheltered young white college student, raised by genteel aunts, who first witnesses and then joins the freedom movement in the racial hotbed that was Birmingham, Alabama of the 1060s. Stella's life is forever altered by her new friendships with black women and by the dangerous conflagration engulfing everyone and everything she has known."
  • "Stella, a white college student, joins the freedom movement in 1960s Alabama, and her new friendships with black women alter her life for ever. So does the dangerous conflagration engulfing everyone and everything she has known."@en
  • "In the wake of racial tensions in 1960s Alabama, sheltered white college student Stella participates in her first freedom movement and finds her life changed in several ways when she develops friendships with local African Americans."
  • "In Four Spirits, Sena Jeter Naslund weaves together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, violent repression and peaceful protest to create an epic tapestry of American social transformation. At the heart of the novel is a sheltered young white college student, raised by genteel aunts, who first witnesses and then joins the freedom movement in the racial hotbed that was Birmingham, Alabama of the 1960s. Stella's life is forever altered by her new friendships with black women and by the dangerous conflagration engulfing everyone and everything she has known."@en
  • "The lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, violent repression and peaceful protest are woven together to create an epic tapestry of American social transformation. Stella, a white college student, joins the freedom movement in 1960s Alabama, and her new friendships with black women alter her life for ever. So does the dangerous conflagration engulfing everyone and everything she has known."@en
  • "Set in Naslund's home city of Birmingham, Alabama, Naslund brings to life the tumultuous freedom movement of the 1960s, weaving together the lives of blacks and whites, civil rights advocates and racists, and events of peaceful protest and violent repression, creating a tapestry of American social transformation."@en
  • "Birmingham in the early 1960's: a city sharply divided by race and haunted by the memory of four African-American girls murdered in a church bombing. A dozen or so citizens of Birmingham are drawn into both sides of the struggle for civil rights, a struggle that touches each individual personally and will eventually set them all on intersecting paths."

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  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Political fiction"@en
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  • "Four spirits a novel"
  • "Four spirits"
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