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Ballantine

9780593358368

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Good Dirt

Charmaine Wilkerson’s second novel, Good Dirt, reminds us that we need access to a multitude of stories for a full understanding of our country’s rich and complicated past.

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Review of ‘Good Dirt’

“History,” one of the characters in Good Dirt remarks, “can only be told through a chorus of voices.” Charmaine Wilkerson’s (Black Cake) second novel reminds us that we need access to a multitude of stories for a full understanding of our country’s rich and complicated past.

On her wedding day, Ebony (Ebby) Freeman, the daughter…

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