Absalom's daughters : a novel
(Book)

Booklist,,June 01, 2016

Kirkus Reviews,,May 01, 2016

Library Journal Prepub Alert,,January 25, 2016

Publishers Weekly,,May 09, 2016

A spellbinding debut about half sisters, one black and one white, on a 1950's road trip through the American South. Self-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother's laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for colored music and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father's inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what's rightly theirs. In an old junk car, with a frying pan, a ham, and a few dollars hidden in a shoe, they set off through the American Deep South of the 1950's, a bewitchingly beautiful landscape as well as one bedeviled by racial strife and violence. Suzanne Feldman's Absalom's Daughters combines the buddy movie, the coming-of-age tale, and a dash of magical realism to enthrall and move us with an unforgettable, illuminating novel.