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Did Alex Haley's Roots leave you thirsty
for something more—perhaps some payback?
Love In Times of Outrage could be the answer.
The trade paperback novel (2ndsightbooks.com) will be released July 30, 2007.
Catherine Morgan overcomes having a baby at age fourteen, ventures out of Mississippi to New York City during the Harlem Renaissance and falls in love with Felipe Fortenbras, a Mexican American writer from California. Thus begins an on/off love affair severed more than once by bolts from the blue. Like Garcia-Marquez's Love In The Time of Cholera, a bitter-sweet love story paints a canvas of a century, from youthful quest to change the world, through the Great Depres-sion to becoming a medical doctor, until one day Catherine and Felipe are no longer young, and routine has almost put out the fire. Then, things get really interesting. Inspired by the Civil Rights and United Farm Worker movements, two old souls sortie out to battle evil like Don Quixote. Courageous and hilarious!
Perhaps Catherine's inspiration was her old teacher, a member of Mississ-ippi's constitutional convention after the Civil War. Or, perhaps it was shooting a white man to protect a helpless woman sharecropper? Not to be ignored is the country doctor with no phone who hires her to help tend his patients. Nor can we forget the old woman who initiates Catherine in Dreamtime, a way of moving closer to death in order to see things outside of time.
Author John Hatch makes his home in Berkeley, California. In several historical novels, he has chronicled the Mississippi swamp community of "Africa" that became the farming community of New Africa about sixty miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. Like many small farming communities it no longer exists. Hatch's newest offering unfolds in New York City, the California Central Valley and, of course, Mississippi of the main character's birth.
"Cat Morgan is a product of her time like Richard Wright's Native Son," says the author. "We see the long ferment of estrangement in her life, but she is not a brute. I cracked up writing Cat's exploits because 'bad niggas'—women especial-ly—had to scheme back in the day to overcome home-grown terrorist like their exploiting bosses and even the KKK."
A haunting question from not yet multi-racial publishers always is, how many will buy an African American turning the tables on white folks? "Cat dodges some very nasty things," Hatch says. "When bad guys bite the dust, everybody gets to laugh. Call it a psychic tonic. Color is irrelevant."
The narration is in third-person punctuated by first-person observations of the narrator from inside Dreamtime. The writing is sometimes magical real and often haunting as a poem, especially when—get ready for this—Catherine and Felipe invade Mississippi.
Get Love In Times of Outrage in local bookstores. Or, buy online at www. 2ndsightbooks.com. 2ndsightbooks.com is a co-op press located at 2817 Woolsey Street, Berkeley, CA 94705. Wholesale thru Baker & Taylor, Koen.
