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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Fire in Beulah

Fire in Beulah

Askew, Rilla

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0142000248
ISBN13: 9780142000243
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Dec 31 2001
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
Awards: Oklahoma Book Award
A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families--one white, one Black--whose lives are woven together and then shattered (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop for this riveting novel about one of the worst incidents of violence in American history. Althea Whiteside, an oil-wildcatter's high-strung white wife, and her enigmatic Black maid, Graceful, share a complex connection during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush. Their juxtaposing stories--and those of others close to them--unfold as tensions mount to a violent climax in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, during which whites burned the city's prosperous Black neighborhood to the ground. The massacre becomes the crucible that melds and tests each of the character in this masterful exploration of the American race story and the ties that bind us irrevocably to one another.

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