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Pocket Books
September 2006
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Featuring: Celeste Tyree
410 pages
ISBN: 1416524827
EAN: 9781416524823
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Multicultural African-American
Freshwater Road is the story of one young woman's
journey into adulthood via the political and social
upheavals of the civil rights movement. A young black
collegian, Celeste Tyree, leaves Ann Arbor to go to
Pineyville, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964 to help
found a Freedom School and a voter registration project as
part of Freedom Summer. As the summer unfolds, she
confronts not only the political realities of race and
poverty in this tiny town, but also truths about herself
and her own family.
As Celeste gets to know her fellow activists and the
people of Pineyville, she grapples with her father's
disapproval of her decision to go to Mississippi. A
numbers-running bar owner in Detroit, Shuck Tyree is proud
of his daughter and proud of the opportunities he's
provided for her; Celeste risking what he's offered by
going to the violent South is not what he had planned.
Long estranged from her mother, Celeste is rocked by
revelations of wrenching details of her past. At the same
time, she develops a deep relationship with some of the
people she meets and befriends in Pineyville and learns
that there are no easy answers to the questions that
preoccupy her-about violence and nonviolence, about race,
identity, and color, and about the strength of love and
family bonds. Before her career as a film and TV star, Denise Nicholas
worked with the Free Southern Theater in Mississippi in
1964, and in Freshwater Road she reaches back to bring
that summer alive in this unforgettable first novel.
Freshwater Road will prove to be one of the best and most
important novels ever written about the civil rights
movement in America.
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