Saturday at Octavia Books of New Orleans. She will sign copies of “A Kind of Freedom” at 6 p.m. She is a recipient of the Lombard fellowship in which she spent a year working for civil rights in the Dominican Republic. Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth and law at UC Berkeley. When his girlfriend gives birth to a son, he feels the pull of being someone his son will admire, despite the hand being dealt him as a man of color. Jackie’s son, T.C., grows up lured with the easy money of providing drugs to the community, and he enjoys growing his own special blend of pot. Evelyn must choose between her privileged upbringing and the man she loves, a man struggling to achieve success among gross discrimination in both the military and the city of his youth.Įvelyn and Renard give birth to two daughters, one who becomes a successful lawyer and Jackie, who marries a man destined to fall victim to drugs. She falls for Renard, a man of lesser upbringing but one who also desires to become a doctor. Three New Orleans generations make up Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s heart-wrenching novel, “A Kind of Freedom,” each suffering through desires, ambitions and brutal limitations.Įvelyn grows up in a middle-class Creole family during World War II, her father a doctor and a pillar among the African-American community.
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