By John A. Williams
Sissie Joplin is death, and her surviving teenagers have come to assert goodbye. Estranged from their mom for years, Iris and Ralph have either accomplished success—Iris as a jazz singer in Europe and Ralph as a playwright—but the soreness in their formative years is still ceaselessly alive of their memories.
Sissie, too, recollects: the sour struggles and the devastating tragedies; the indignities, cruelties, and deprivations visited upon a strong-willed black woman—and at the as soon as proud males in her existence eventually defeated by means of a white society that every now and then appeared dedicated to their destruction. Sissie was once now not continually clever or reasonable, and her activities frequently did extra damage than strong, yet she survived. And now, on the finish of her lifestyles, it's time for a reckoning—and one final chance to heal.
A powerfully affecting kin saga and a provocative indictment of racism in the United States, Sissie is a powerful success through John A. Williams, the award-winning writer heralded by means of Ishmael Reed as “the top African American author of the century.”
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