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Such was the season

by Clarence Major · 1987

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Such Was the Season is the story of an eventful week in the life of an elderly matriarch of a large black family in Atlanta. Annie Eliza narrates the story of "a killer diller" week, with the homecoming of her nephew, Adam "Juneboy" North, a doctor at Yale who has been gone for more than twenty-five years. Following her nephew's arrival Annie Eliza's daughter-in-law declares her intention to run for a seat in the state senate, which is soon disrupted by the threat of scandal involving someone close to her.

Older womenAfrican American womenAuntsFictionFiction, family lifeAfrican americans, fictionAtlanta (ga.), fictionNew York Times reviewed