Makeda
By: by Randall Robinson
Publisher: Akashic Books/Open Lens
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781617750229
Subjects: Fiction; African American families; Dogon (African people)
Description: Makeda Gee Florida Harris March is a proud matriarch, the anchor and emotional bellwether who holds together a hard-working African American family living in 1950s Richmond, Virginia. Lost in shadow is Makeda's grandson Gray, who begins escaping into the magical world of Makeda's tiny parlor.