Blues in the Blood
Delmaire, Julien / Fagan, Teresa Lavender
A moving ode to the Mississippi delta inspired by magical realism and written in vibrant and poetic prose.  Blues in the Blood is an ode to the spring of 1932 in the Mississippi delta, when stifling heat crushed the countryside and threatened the harvest, pervasive injustice ruled the day, and ghostly riders of the Ku Klux Klan spread terror. A panoramic historical and musical portrait, Blues in the Blood follows a poor young Black couple w...