Angel of Greenwood, Randi Pink
Angel of Greenwood, Randi Pink
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

Angel of Greenwood

Author: Randi Pink

Narrator: Mia Ellis

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/22/2021


Synopsis

A piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the "Black Wall Street," and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family's financial situation is in turmoil.

Though they've attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can't turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon.

But life changes on May 31, 1921, when a vicious white mob storms the Black community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Only then, Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are.

About Randi Pink

Randi Pink grew up in the South and attended a mostly white high school. She lives with her husband and their two rescue dogs in Birmingham, Alabama, where she works for a branch of National Public Radio. Into White was her fiction debut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Celia

My heart is destroyed. That's a nice way to start a review, huh? Read on, my pretties. I first discovered this book during a cover reveal on Instagram where I promptly followed the author and gushed over the cover and synopsis. It popped up on Edelweiss soon after, and I managed to grab an e-arc. Alt......more

4.5 stars Absolutely gut-wrenching, but overall ultimately uplifting story focusing on two young adults in the Greenwood district of Tulsa in 1921. Although this tale culminates in the little known Tulsa Massacre, the novel explores two young people falling in love despite their differences in opinio......more

Goodreads review by melhara

This is a historical YA romance (not too heavy on the romance though, yay!) about Isaiah Wilson and Angel Hill. While they do attend the same church and go to school together, they don't know each other very well until one day, their English teacher pairs them together to help with a mobile library......more

The debate between which Negro leader, Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. Du Bois, staunch ideas could produce Black freedom to alleviate the pains of slavery was a major part of this novel. This historical fiction is about Isaiah Wilson and Angel Hill who are teenager's, set in May 1921, in the Greenwo......more