Zelda Lockhart

• Aug-2002
• / General Fiction
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When Odessa Blackburn is three years old, she sees her grandmother for the last time, and so begins her story as the fifth born of eight children in a troubled family. Molested by her father, Odessa is also the sole witness to a murder he commits. He...

• Oct-2006
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During one of the most tumultuous times for the North American continent (pre and post Civil War) three generations of women both Native American and African American, struggle to be free.Raven, the main character of the first two chapters of the nov...

• Jun-2010
• / General Fiction
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Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle is sequel to the novel Fifth Born. Set in New York s Harlem and in rural Mississippi during the late 1970 s and 80 s, the novel is reminiscent in tone to Alice Walker s The Color Purple. The story is rich in its po...

• Jan-2018
• / General Fiction
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When Odessa Blackburn is first left in Mississippi to negotiate a new life with her ostracized mother Ella Mae, the strains of family propaganda, puberty, and life away from her siblings make for compounded heartache. Odessa and Ella Mae must negotia...

• Jul-2023
• / Women's Fiction
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The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga -- as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Turner House, and The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois -- that explores three generations of a fam...