Trinity

The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying multi-generational family sagaâ"as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Turner House, and The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBoisâ"that explores three generations of a family trying to overcome trials and trauma and free themselves from the darkness of the past. Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a Black nurse who declares, âLord Jesus, if that ainât the blackest little baby born this side of heaven.â Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestorsâ promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippiâs red clay tobacco fields of the Jim Crow South, and Benjamin Junior, his son and Lottie Rebeccaâs father, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where the post Korean War GI Bill promises prosperity. These two generations of men are haunted by the Mother-Spirit who did not survive enslavementâs post-traumatic stress violence. This powerful work of African American historical fiction, Trinity , is the riveting story of the daughter-spirit born to stitch love back into the scattered wombs of her Black mothers and call love back into the fishing blues songs of her Black male kin. Lottie Rebecca Lee is the Divine spirited daughter born to set everything back up right again, in this daringly original novel about ancestral healing.