In a series of startling revelations, the women of a poor black family share memories of love, conflict, resentment, and unrealized dreams when they gather for the funeral of the family's central figure, Joy Bang...
Captures the complex relationship between two friends in 1913 Pennsylvania: a black stableboy, emotionally crippled by racism, who believes invisibility is the best approach to self-preservation, and the empathic aristocrat who coaxes him out of his ...