· FOUR SPIRITS. by Sena Jeter Naslund ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 2, The earnest, accusatory latest from the versatile Alabama author (Ahab’s Wife, , etc.), this time about the struggle for civil rights in Birmingham in the annus horribilis of and thereafter. The bombing of a black church in which four young girls (the title’s presiding “spirits”) are killed and the ideal of Author: Sena Jeter Naslund. · By Sena Jeter Naslund. Sept. 7, From many places in the valley that cradled Birmingham you could lift up your eyes, in , to see the gigantic cast-iron Author: Sena Jeter Naslund. by Sena Jeter Naslund. Sena Jeter Naslund dedicates her new novel, FOUR SPIRITS, to the memories of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley. While these names may not seem immediately familiar, they are important: to quote Naslund's dedication, these four girls were "killed Sunday, Septem, in the racist bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist .
FOUR SPIRITS. By Sena Jeter Naslund. pp. New York: William Morrow. $ It wasn't just the sappy, embossed romance-style cover (sky, ridge, dancing children) that had me wary of Sena Jeter. By Sena Jeter Naslund. Sept. 7, From many places in the valley that cradled Birmingham you could lift up your eyes, in , to see the gigantic cast-iron statue of Vulcan, the Roman god of. Sena Jeter Naslund's latest novel, Four Spirits, melds real people and fictional characters to tell the story of the civil rights struggle in Birmingham, Ala. during the early s. The title.
Set in Birmingham, Alabama during the early 's FOUR SPIRITS is an engrossing novel of how the Civil Rights movement not only affected individuals residing in the city but also the city itself. Birmingham was one of the hotbeds of demonstrations, bombings, and protests during this era, and the lives of those living within the city were greatly affected. by Sena Jeter Naslund. 1. Two quotations, one from William Faulkner and one from Victoria Gray, an African-American Mississippi civil rights activitist, mark the beginning of Four Spirits. On Sunday, Septem, a racist bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four young girls, whose departing souls become the “four spirits” of the.
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