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Dayson, Sion

Dayson, Sion

Athens Drive Community
East Regional
Green Road Community
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Wendell Community
Zebulon Community

Adult Fiction

Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
East Regional - Adult Fiction
Green Road Community - Adult Fiction
Middlecreek Community - Adult Fiction
North Regional - Adult Fiction
Northeast Regional - Adult Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction
Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction
Wendell Community - Adult Fiction
Zebulon Community - Adult Fiction

"As a teenager, Greer Michaels fled his segregated Southern hometown after uncovering a devastating secret. Now it's 1977. He's returned to care for his dying mother and perhaps come to terms with his past. Bannen, Georgia, is a small town surrounded by pine forests and tobacco fields. A place that should be idyllic except for its unpaved roads and ramshackle houses, its racial tensions and class inequalities. A place where it's dangerous for a young black man to challenge the status quo or make the town's white residents feel uncomfortable. While caring for his mother in her final months, Greer befriends their young neighbor, a bright and bookish fifteen-year-old girl named Ceiley. Like Greer himself when he was younger, Ceiley is an insatiable reader and something of a misfit. She's also exasperated with her pious mother, Esse, who insists that Ceiley was immaculately conceived and has never spoken about the traumatic events that left her pregnant at age eleven. Greer's mother, Elizabeth, has traumatic memories of her own. Gifted with an astonishing voice, she stopped singing years ago, after the death of her one true love, and her son has known her only as a silent, mournful presence. Now, as her illness progresses, Greer seeks closure and reconnection with her, and realizes he needs to do the same with the girl whose life had been intertwined with his before his abrupt departure. But finding her is no easy task. In spare and lyrical prose, As a River moves back and forth in time, evoking the mysterious play of memory as it touches upon bereavement and despair, joy and connection."--Provided by publisher.

Book

Books

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Fiction

Fiction

DAYSON

Wake County Public Libraries

Athens Drive Community
East Regional
Green Road Community
Middle Creek Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Wendell Community
Zebulon Community

9781938841101

2019

Jaded Ibis Press

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African American families -- Southern States -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Georgia -- Fiction
Memory -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Race discrimination -- Southern States -- 20th century -- Fiction
Rape victims -- Fiction
Terminally ill -- Fiction

As a river

As a river / Sion Dayson

As a river

African American families
Memory
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and sons
Nineteen seventies
Race discrimination
Rape victims
Terminally ill