feathers

Just a quick report on what, I think, is the best Jacqueline Woodson book I’ve read so far: feathers.  Published in 2007, this middle grade novel won the Newbery Honor Award, and tells the story of a group of sixth-grade students who question whether a new student in their class might actually be Jesus.  With [...]

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“Deny! Deny! Deny!”

If you’ve ever read Alice Walker’s short story, “Advancing Luna and Ida B. Wells,” you know that the narrator has an imaginary conversation with the 19th-century anti-lynching crusader in which Wells urges the contemporary black woman to resolve a moral dilemma by denying its very existence.  The narrator can’t, of course, though it would make [...]

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