November's Featured Book
All Aunt Hagar’s Children, a short story collection by Edward P. Jones.
Book Summary
Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens. All Aunt Hagar's Children turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them further north, people who in Jones's masterful hands, emerge as fully human and morally complex, whether they are country folk used to getting up with the chickens or people with centuries of education behind them.
With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw away and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.
Excerpt
Chapter One - “In the Blink of God’s Eye”
Links of Interest
Robert Birnbaum interviews Jones.
Listen to or read excerpts from an NPR interview with Jones.
Reviews
Purchase This Book (and Support the Festival!)
The Calvin College Campus Store is the official retailer for Festival 2008. You can buy All Aunt Hagar's Children for a great price either through their website or in the store. When you buy through the Campus Store, a portion of all sales go to support the Festival of Faith and Writing.