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Marshall thoroughly and ingeniously explores the damaging effects of pursuing the capitalist-driven American dream as an African American. The novel follows Avey Johnson in the 1970s as she journeys to the Caribbean aboard a cruise ship only to be overcome by vivid dreams of her great aunt Cuney and her time as a child visiting her on Tatem Island, home to Ibo Landing, where the myth of the flying African (or, in this case, slaves who walked on water back to Africa) and the Ring Shout still pers
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