M Shelly Conner recommends
Embers on the Wind (2022)
Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
"Lisa Williamson Rosenberg captures both the conflagration of slavery and its ignited sprawl through time in this stirring novel of linked stories surrounding Whittaker House - a location imbued with Morrison's 'site of memory' connecting people by time, circumstance, and of course, place. Whittaker House is as impressively rendered on the page as it is in our collective literary imagination of places with long memories and the people who comprise and/or curate the histories and stories of them. Embers on the Wind speaks of our connections - temporal, relative, corporeal, and spiritual - in ways that reckon with an ever-present past."
