Free (Kindle) Freshwater Road [Award-Win 1960s US Black Civil Rights Literary Novel]

[ATDrake]

Freshwater Road by actress & social activist Denise Nicholas (IMDB, Wikipedia) is her historical literary coming-of-age novel, set during the 1960s African-American civil rights movement, starring an idealistic young black woman from a sheltered middle-class Northern background who volunteers to register voters in Mississippi and thereby encounters previously-unexperienced social conditions which cause her to re-examine and reflect upon her own notions of racial identity and community, free courtesy of publisher Agate, who are e-printing it from their 2005 edition which was subsequently paperbacked by Simon & Schuster's Pocket imprint, and now seemingly file this standalone novel under their otherwise non-fiction Nia Guide to Black Women theme aegis.

This apparently garnered much praise when it came out and made several newspapers' Best Books of the Year lists, as well as winning the 2006 American Library Association's Black Caucus Award & the Zora Neal Hurston/Richard Wright Award, both in the debut fiction category, and has since been adapted to the stage, according to Wikipedia.

This is technically a repeat which was previously offered free in 2012, but for some reason it's never been mentioned here on MR (or maybe my search-fu is just terribad), so I'm going to treat it as a new freebie for the purposes of the daily thread count, since it's a pretty nifty offering which deserves a feature spot, IMHO.

Currently free, probably just until the weekend @ Amazon (not available to Canadians).

And this has been the selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

Because award-winning historical literary fiction on topics which are still sadly topical today.

Enjoy!

Description
The critically acclaimed debut novel from pioneering actress and writer Denise Nicholas tells the story of one young woman’s coming of age via the political and social upheavals of the civil rights movement.

Nineteen-year-old Celeste Tyree leaves Ann Arbor to go to Pineyville, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964 to help found a voter registration project as part of Freedom Summer. As the summer unfolds, she confronts not only the political realities of race and poverty in this tiny town, but also deep truths about her family and herself.

Drawing on Nicholas’ own involvement in the movement, Freshwater Road was hailed by Newsday as “Perhaps the best work of fiction ever done about the civil rights movement.”

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