From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries,
Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical
exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several
generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live
with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by
matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old
secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy.
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