Bernice mcfadden books5/22/2023 ![]() Money, Mississippi.' That was the first line that came to me when I finally asked the question. So I walked away from the story for a few months and just thought about it and finally I just asked, 'Well, I don't know who's telling the story who's telling the story?' And what came was the town Money. When asked how she arrived at such an unusual choice, McFadden says, "When I started writing the story, I wasn't really clear on who the narrator was, and I kept writing, but it wasn't ringing authentic to me, and I felt as if it was really struggling. Instead, the speaker is the town of Money, Mississippi, itself, splitting the difference between historical material and Nor is the story told by Esther, the ghostly spirit of a whore who inhabits bodies at will and drives them to evil. McFadden's Gathering of Waters announces itself as one of these rare books right away: The novel's speaker isn't Emmitt Till, the African-American boy whose 1955 murder at the hands of two white men prompted redoubled attention to the outrageously brutal treatment of blacks. ![]() ![]() ![]() But every once in a great while, the twain meet, highlighting the fantastical elements of things that really happened. McFadden (Photo courtesy of Eric Payne)Īs fiction-writing camps go, historical novelists usually pitch their tents pretty far away from the magical realists. ![]()
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