This is an utterly delightly social study on umbrellas — what they have meant throughout history, how we use them today, and what they signify in literature.
GLORIOUS by Bernice McFadden
Glorious is like nothing else I’ve ever read. And I read a lot. Author Bernice McFadden uses sparse language yet still manages to create searing images for the reader. The book opens with the young heroine Easter witnessing a brutal lynching in post -Reconstruction South. This becomes the jumping off point for Easter’s nomadic trek through…