A Kind of Freedom

Name: A Kind of Freedom
Brand: John Murray Press

John Murray Press

A Kind of FreedomA John Murray Original\nAuthor(s): Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Murray Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: JM Originals\nISBN-13: 9781473679597, 978-1473679597\nSynopsis\nLonglisted for the 2017 National Book Award\n\n'Luminous . . . a writer of uncommon nerve and talent' New York Times\n\nEvelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.\n\nIn 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life.\n\nJackie's son, [url] loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina, but the New Orleans he knew didn't s.