New York Times Review of GLORIOUS ( 8/22/2010)

GLORIOUS
By Bernice L. McFadden.
239 pp. Akashic. Paper, $15.95
NYT

Young Easter Bartlett's life in Jim Crow-ruled Georgia, in 1910, is dominated by racism. After her sister is brutally raped by a group of white boys, her family crumbles and Easter flees her hometown of Waycross, only to witness more brutal and unpunished instances of white cruelty. A chance encounter leads the book-loving girl "up South" to Harlem, where the stimuli of city life coax forth her burgeoning artistic sensibility. ...