Coming Around

by Richard L. Rose

A story in verse, Coming Around is the companion piece to the opera Monte and Pinky and the earlier story of Pinky in Rose's Frameshifts (2011). Coming around tells about 200 years of journeys in and out of Richmond as it follows the life and descendants of a slave named Simon Abouette, and of the Ouillechaud family, who purchase him to work on their sugar plantation in the early 1800s. Interspersed with heartbreaking lyric pieces based on historical anecdotes from across the South, Coming Around is the culmination of one man's effort to heal the hurts of the past through humility, understanding, and acceptance.

64 pages, Paperback

First published August 6, 2018