Book description
âThe last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.â - Marlon James, Elle
From the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely giftedâand dividedâfamily, set against the backdropâŠ
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As a musician, I was initially intrigued by the title. I soon realized that Richard Powers would interweave his charactersâ love of classical music with complex issues of race within a family. The parents-to-be meet in 1939 at the historic outdoor concert featuring singer Marian Anderson, who really was denied the best concert hall. He is a German-Jewish refugee; she is an African American music student. Can love withstand societyâs pressures tearing Whites and Blacks apart? Can the parentsâ idealism protect their children?
The narrator moves back and forth between the parentsâ and childrenâs stories, from the 1940s through theâŠ
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