![]() ![]() The result is a surprising, perceptive, and evocative collection of stories that is also a moving exploration of our human condition. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives.Īs McBride did in his National Book award-winning The Good Lord Bird and his best-selling The Color of Water, he writes with humor and insight about how we struggle to understand who we are in a world we don’t fully comprehend. ![]() An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. Lee now sits in the home of a Black minister in Queens. Riding past a graveyard one day, she looked over and remarked, That’s Florida Forever., Annie’s Pa was a hero to me. They’re all dead now, or in Florida, which in her mind is the same as being dead. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. 246 quotes from James McBride: It doesn’t matter. ![]() McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. They’re funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic - all told with McBride’s unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. The stories in Five-Carat Soul - none of them ever published before - spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. From the New York Times best-selling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. ![]()
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