num_pages: 240
description: Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFaddens rich imagination this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success ruin and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty.Glorious is ultimately an audacious exploration into the nature of self-hatred love possession ego betrayal and finally redemption.Bernice L. McFadden is the author of six critically acclaimed novels including the classic Sugar and Nowhere Is a Place which was a Washington Post best fiction title for 2006. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist as well as the recipient of two fiction honors from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA). McFadden lives in Brooklyn New York where she is working on her next novel.
language: English
title: Glorious
publisher: Akashic Books