About the Book “A profound, chilling, and heartbreaking contribution to American history.” — Boston Globe Before Rodney King, before the riots in Cincinnati, before Newark and Detroit and Watts, there was the Tulsa race war. On May 30, 1921, a misunderstanding between a white elevator operator and a black delivery boy escalated into the [...]
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The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
Questions for Discussion 1. The Wind Done Gone is a novel written in the form of a first-person diary. How would you describe Cynara’s voice? How does her language evolve over the course of the book? 2. Mammy is a very complex character: a lover, friend, mother, nurse, and possible murderer. To whom does [...]
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
About The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers’s literary debut, was first published by Houghton Mifflin, on June 4, 1940, the twenty-three-year-old author became a literary sensation virtually overnight. The novel is considered McCullers’s finest work, an enduring masterpiece that was chosen by the Modern Library [...]
