Weaving
the Journey
Noni and the Great Grands
The new novel by
Gwendoline Y. Fortune
Winter 2010
Avisson Press Fiction
trade paper $19.95
ISBN 978-1-888105-81-0
LC # 2009912976
When 11-year old C.J. asks her grandmother, "Noni, where did I come from," a memorable quest begins. Weaving the Journey: Noni and the Great Grands is a multi-generational saga of family, culture and race that begins with Sariah, a slave in the early 1800s, and concludes with Sariah's descendants in the 21st Century. The reader will meet a multi-ethnic cast of characters--black, brown, red and white--who move through space and time in a compelling landscape. This is the sympathetic and ultimately healing story of the intermingling--the weaving--of a truly American family.
Praise for Gwendoline Y. Fortune's previous novel, Growing Up Nigger Rich
"A well-written novel populated by a vibrant cast of characters. An important Sothern story, seldom told-illuminating, memorable, necessary."
--Lee Smith, author of Oral History
"…lights up a niche of the American experience which has hitherto been in the dark. …a landmark novel."
--Robert Gover, author of The One-Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding
"In a season when several African-American writers devoted novels to tell the story of the black bourgeoisie, one of the boldest -- as witness the bravado of its title -- and most interesting is… Fortune's first novel…"
--George Garrett, in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook