Professor Edwards, a free-lance writer and Black Studies teacher at a New York college, is assigned to interview Mona Pariss, an aging ex-showgirl famed in the 1920s, and enters a magical world of mysticism, humor, and sex...
After several years of silence and seclusion in Beetlecreekâs black quarter, a carnival worker named Bill Trapp befriends Johnny Johnson, a Pittsburgh teenager living with relatives in Beetlecreek. Bill is white. Johnny is black. Both are search...