Sunday’s Orphan
by Catherine Gentile
Publication Date: September 29, 2021
Fiction/Historical
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PRAISE:
“Catherine Gentile brings Jim Crow to vivid, heartbreaking life in this tale of a complicated, endearing woman caught between the cruelty of her time and the emerging secrets of her own identity. Compelling, timely, and beautifully written.”
—Monica Wood, author of One In a Million Boy, When We Were the Kennedys, and Ernie's Ark
"The book lays bare the cruelty and hypocrisy of Jim Crow throughout the novel, and its greatest strength is in how it sets up mysteries and gut-punch reveals. Readers will sometimes need a moment to catch their breath, even as they keep turning pages."
—Kirkus Reviews
“. . . just plain excellent. Through its acuity of expression, emotional and psychological insight, and the unfolding of characters, it allows us to enter an historical period—the Jim Crow South—that is critical to understand racism today. This is imaginative work that hits home.”
—Jeremiah Conway, PhD Professor Emeritus, University of Southern Maine, author of The Alchemy of Teaching; The Transformation of Lives
DESCRIPTION:
In 1930, the first racially motivated Jim Crow hanging to occur in twenty years on Martons Island, Georgia, propels Promise Crawford, a free-thinking twenty-year-old white woman, to jeopardize her life by uncovering family secrets, and the deceptions permeating her community. When the opportunity for retribution presents itself, Promise refuses to replicate the violence she has witnessed, choosing, instead, to unleash an unexpected brand of justice.
CATHERINE GENTILE’S fiction received the Dana Award for Short Fiction. Her debut novel, The Quiet Roar of a Hummingbird, was a Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Novel Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing. Small Lies, a collection of short stories, was released in October 2020. Her nonfiction covers a variety of topics and has appeared in Writers’ Market, North Dakota Quarterly, Down East, and Maine Magazine. She currently edits and publishes a monthly ezine entitled Together With Alzheimer's, which has subscribers throughout the United States. A native of Hartford, Connecticut, Catherine lives with her husband and muse on a small island off the coast of Maine. Her latest novel, Sunday's Orphan, is scheduled for release in September, 2021. Learn more at www.catherinegentile.com.
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