Product Description: A moody, sumptuous debut novel set in 1990s Paris   Matilde Anselm, professor of cardiac anesthesiology, arrives in Paris from New York to be part of a surgery team in the winter of 1990, as manifestations against the First Gulf War are raging in the streets...read more

Focusing on the lives of three black Americans from northeastern Florida--an unarmed motorist killed by a white cop, the granddaughter of the state's first black millionaire, and novelist Zora Neale Hurston--the author plumbs the soul of American race relations and shows how these stories convey important lessons about the American experiment. Reprint.

An accomplished journalist illuminates the state of race relations today through three stories about northeast Florida, including the battle of the great-granddaughter of Florida's first black millionaire to save the town of American Beach. Simultaneous.