Editorial Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
An elaboration on--as well as a sequel to--the film's captivating story of a multigenerational African- American family, the book explores the rich but little-known Gullah culture of the South Carolina Sea Islands.... A sprinkling of home remedies--"Faith" balm, Love Powder Potion, and Home Sweetener--adds flavor to an already heady tale of family and heritage.
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The New York Times Book Review, Casey King
...while the film focuses on the Peazant family at the point of their migration from an isolated island community of formerly enslaved Africans, the novel carries the story to the next generation--to the 1920s and Amelia Varnes, a student of anthropology who returns from New York to observe Gullah society for an ethnographic study and, in the process, rediscovers her matrilineal heritage. Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston, Dash elegantly combines sultry descriptions with evocations of oral tradition, cultural theory with a sincere reverence for Gullah esthetics and experience.
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Daughters of the Dust
Daughters of the Dust,Julie Dash,Plume Books,0452276071,Fiction,Fiction - Historical,General,Historical - General
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