The Birds of Opulence

by Crystal Wilkinson

Book Overview

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813166918
• ISBN13: 9780813166919
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up