From the shores of Africa to the bowels of a transatlantic ship
to a voting booth in Mississippi to the jungles of Vietnam, all
human connection is a matter of souls.
In this stirring collection of short stories, Denise Lewis Patrick
considers the souls of black men and women across centuries
and continents. In each, she takes the measure of their
dignity, describes their dreams, and catalogs their fears.
Brutality, beauty, laughter, rage, and love all take their turns
in each story, but the final impression is of indomitable,
luminous, and connected souls.
