Trinity
A Novel
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- 13,99 €
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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 family trying to overcome trials and trauma and free themselves from the darkness of the past.
Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a Black nurse who declares, “Lord Jesus, if that ain’t the blackest little baby born this side of heaven.” Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestors’ promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippi’s red clay tobacco fields, and Benjamin Junior, his son and Lottie Rebecca’s father, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where the post Korean War GI Bill promises prosperity. These two generations of men are haunted by the Mother-Spirit who did not survive enslavement’s post-traumatic stress violence. Trinity is the riveting story of the daughter-spirit born to stitch love back into the scattered wombs of her Black mothers and call love back into the fishing blues songs of her Black male kin. Lottie Rebecca Lee is the Divine spirited daughter born to set everything back up right again, in this daringly original novel.
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Lockhart (Fifth Born) chronicles a family's generational trauma and a spiritual intervention in her intense latest. Benjamin and Lenard Lee are raised in 1940s Mississippi, where they work as field hands for their abusive father, Old Deddy. Their mother, Lottie, tells Benjamin when he's 13 of her plans to leave and earn enough money to rescue the brothers from their father. Angry and distraught, Benjamin shoots and kills her. The boys' paths diverge from there: Lenard eventually follows their half brother James to Missouri and becomes a teacher, while Benjamin, now a Korean War veteran, repeats Old Deddy's abuse on his wife and their son, B.J. Later, B.J. leaves to fight in Vietnam, a war he survives but which wreaks havoc on his psyche and his ability to connect with his wife, Sheila. The Lees' pain is witnessed by a generations-old spirit, which has also seen their ancestors' enslavement. When B.J. and Sheila have a daughter, Lottie Rebecca, the spirit is born with her. Lottie Rebecca's precocious wisdom makes it difficult for her to bond with others until a cathartic trip to her great-grandparents' Mississippi home, which reveals to her the best way to begin healing the family's wounds. Lockhart skillfully untangles the long-term effects of violence, trauma, and the history of enslavement on the family. This is not to be missed.
