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And Do Remember Me
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With her best-selling critically acclaimed novels Long Distance Life and A Woman's Place, Marita Golden established herself as one of the most vibrant, original voices in contemporary letters, a writer without parallel in her piercing examination of the confluent factors of race, sex, and family and their interplay in modern Black America.
Her eagerly awaited third novel, And Do Remember Me, is a rich and poignant tale of the intimate friendship between two women and the men they love over twenty-five years of astonishing political and personal evolution.
"Freedom Summer" has arrived, and the winds of change are blowing hot and violent across the humid Mississippi Delta. Swept up in the storm is Jessie Foster, a young Black women who summons up a courage she never knew she possessed, to run away from a sexually abusive father and into the heart of the civil rights movement.
Engaged in a harrowing war against the accumulated force of generations of brooding bigotry and hatred, Jessie finds herself both terrified and exhilarated. Suddenly she is moving among people whose passion and taste for freedom change both her perceptions about herself and the very course of her life.
Among them is Macon, the woman who will become her closest friend through the heady years of turmoil and strife ahead, and Lincoln, a playwright who introduces Jessie to the Movement and who will become her mentor and lover.
It is Lincoln who helps her shape a voice and a healing vision of herself that allows her to defeat the silence of the past and move triumphantly into a future of her own choosing.
Written with stunning force and visionary intensity, And Do Remember Me plumbs the depths of two women's souls and evokes the storms and stresses that shaped the lives of one of America's pivotal generations.
