A Different Drummer Decks In Watermelon and Red Birds

In Watermelon and Red Birds

But here's the real kicker

With original art for the cover by Ekua Holmes

she celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage

2022 Brian Stelfreeze introduction

A Different Drummer Decks In Watermelon and Red BirdsThe stunning, thought provoking first novel by a "lost giant of American literature" (The New Yorker) June, 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child. His departure sets off an exodus of the states entire black population, throwing the established order into brilliant disarray. Told from the points