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Academy Prize nominee Alfre Woodard narrates Glorious, by Bernice L. McFadden, a novel set resistant to the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil privileges era. This is actually the storyline of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a imaginary Harlem Renaissance article writer whose tumultuous route out of Waycross, Georgia, to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty. Woodard's nuanced narration magnificently enhances McFadden's imaginative mixture of imaginary and real occasions and people-such as Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, pianist Excess fat Waller, and shipping and delivery heiress Nancy Cunard. Glorious poses the question this is the subject of Langston Hughes's famous poem: What happens to a dream deferred? It is an audacious exploration into the aspect of self-hatred, love, possession, ego, betrayal, and, finally, redemption. Easter is not only a survivor, but also a originator, and a fearless blazer of trails. Bernice L. McFadden is the writer of six critically acclaimed novels, including the common Sweets and Nowhere Is actually a Place, which was a Washington Post Best Fiction subject for 2006.
