Redwood and Wildfire, Andrea Hairston
Redwood and Wildfire, Andrea Hairston
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Redwood and Wildfire

Author: Andrea Hairston

Narrator: January LaVoy

Unabridged: 18 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2022

Synopsis

Andrea Hairston's Redwood and Wildfire features blues singers, filmmakers, haints, healers, romance, and magic from Georgia to Chicago!

At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. This "dreaming in public" becomes common culture and part of what transforms immigrants and "native" born into Americans.

Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal and determine the course of today and tomorrow.

About Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She is the author of Redwood and Wildfire, winner of the 2011 Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award, and Mindscape, shortlisted for the Phillip K Dick and Otherwise Awards, and winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award. In her spare time, she is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Afro-American Studies at Smith College. She has received the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award for outstanding contributions to the criticism of the fantastic. She bikes at night year-round, meeting bears, and the occasional shooting star.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lashawn

I've been listening to the Carolina Chocolate Drops for the past few months now. I've always been a fan of bluegrass, but when I learned that blacks also did old timey music, that it was the precursor to the blues, it was like discovering a history I never knew of myself. Reading Redwood and Wildfir......more

Goodreads review by Craig Laurance

Currently reading.... Imagine if Zora Neale Hurston wrote a fantasy novel..........more

Goodreads review by D

I finished Hairston's harrowing and beautiful Redwood and Wildfire about a week ago, and I've been struggling to write about it in a way that does it justice. But it's today that I learned about the acquittal of one George Zimmerman in the murder trial of one Trayvon Martin, and that -- and what it......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

I came to this book through Hairston's Will Do Magic for Small Change, a contemporary book that follows Redwood and Wildfire's teenage granddaughter. They are in that book, so I really wanted to read their story. This book doesn't disappoint. Redwood, a black girl growing up in rural Georgia, is a ch......more

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