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Title: Race: The Colour of Shame
Author: Marie-Madeleine MacLean
Narrator: Dave Fennoy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-01-16
Publisher: Cherry Hill Publishing, LLC
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Race: The Colour of Shame is a complex supernatural thriller describing the devastating effect that a Negro wayward gene has on the Hoxworths, a rich and powerful southern Caucasian American family.
A mulatto boy, the offspring of a Hoxworth male and a young female slave whom he raped, is born two centuries prior and is the last surviving male heir. The prologue takes us back 60 years to the magnificent Hoxworth Castle near the city of New Orleans to witness the birth of a baby girl in the family's palatial birthing room. As the baby's skin rapidly begins to darken, the Hoxworths must once again deny their mixed ancestry. And as so many times before, they must have their trusted family doctor, on the order of the family matriarch, suffocate the child to keep their dark secret.
Critic Reviews:
"Ms MacLean's debut novel illuminates the difficulty of racial identity and the chaos it can create. The narrative deftly investigates racism beyond simple black and white figures. This astutely delicate dramatisation of race relations dotted with ghosts, sex scenes and rambling in New Orleans and abroad can be thrilling. The story provides a worthwhile glimpse at how startling the answers to questions of heredity can be." (Kirkus Reviews)
Members Reviews:
BRILLIANT!
An excellent and thought-provoking supernatural thriller, Marie-Madeleine Maclean has penned a marvelous entertainment, a literary tapestry woven together with deliciously textured yarns of a novel that spans centuries. The novel urges readers to re-examine issues such as race, extreme wealth, spirituality, sin, and karma through the tale of racially mixed ballet star, Angela.
As Angela embarks on a journey to discover her roots, she uncovers one shocking fact after another, the worst being that her ancestors preferred the murder of new born babies over the societal ruin and loss of their position as first family of New Orleans. In fact, the Hoxworths' secret seems to remain of utmost importance, for when Angela returns to the US for the funeral of her beloved "father", she must now dodge the murderous hands of an assassin. Her entire world goes topsy-turvy as Angela's quest leads her from the lair of a Voodoo priestess to the arms of a free spirit, who seems to have elevated himself beyond superficial prejudices based on color.
RACE: THE COLOUR OF SHAME is a fabulous and amusing read. It is also a necessary read in a world which seems to have forgotten that while beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, racism -- whether due to colour, political creed, religion, class or wealth -- is always a crime against humanity, and one that the human race--had it any intelligence--should've learned 2000 years ago.
RACE: THE COLOUR OF SHAME is a great novel. I urge you to read it reflectively, for between the lines, you may notice that the book is not just about color, but also about the power of the wealthy to get away with murder. The Hoxworths got away with murder due to their ability to pay doctors, servants, etc., to look the other way, even while murdering an infant. The great thing about MMM's novel, RACE: THE COLOUR OF SHAME, is that it begs us to ask ourselves a pertinent question: What IS the color of shame? Is our shame black? Is our shame white? Is our shame yellow? red?
In my opinion, the color of shame is not a color at all.
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Title: Race: The Colour of Shame
Author: Marie-Madeleine MacLean
Narrator: Dave Fennoy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-01-16
Publisher: Cherry Hill Publishing, LLC
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Race: The Colour of Shame is a complex supernatural thriller describing the devastating effect that a Negro wayward gene has on the Hoxworths, a rich and powerful southern Caucasian American family.
A mulatto boy, the offspring of a Hoxworth male and a young female slave whom he raped, is born two centuries prior and is the last surviving male heir. The prologue takes us back 60 years to the magnificent Hoxworth Castle near the city of New Orleans to witness the birth of a baby girl in the family's palatial birthing room. As the baby's skin rapidly begins to darken, the Hoxworths must once again deny their mixed ancestry. And as so many times before, they must have their trusted family doctor, on the order of the family matriarch, suffocate the child to keep their dark secret.
Critic Reviews:
"Ms MacLean's debut novel illuminates the difficulty of racial identity and the chaos it can create. The narrative deftly investigates racism beyond simple black and white figures. This astutely delicate dramatisation of race relations dotted with ghosts, sex scenes and rambling in New Orleans and abroad can be thrilling. The story provides a worthwhile glimpse at how startling the answers to questions of heredity can be." (Kirkus Reviews)
Members Reviews:
BRILLIANT!
An excellent and thought-provoking supernatural thriller, Marie-Madeleine Maclean has penned a marvelous entertainment, a literary tapestry woven together with deliciously textured yarns of a novel that spans centuries. The novel urges readers to re-examine issues such as race, extreme wealth, spirituality, sin, and karma through the tale of racially mixed ballet star, Angela.
As Angela embarks on a journey to discover her roots, she uncovers one shocking fact after another, the worst being that her ancestors preferred the murder of new born babies over the societal ruin and loss of their position as first family of New Orleans. In fact, the Hoxworths' secret seems to remain of utmost importance, for when Angela returns to the US for the funeral of her beloved "father", she must now dodge the murderous hands of an assassin. Her entire world goes topsy-turvy as Angela's quest leads her from the lair of a Voodoo priestess to the arms of a free spirit, who seems to have elevated himself beyond superficial prejudices based on color.
RACE: THE COLOUR OF SHAME is a fabulous and amusing read. It is also a necessary read in a world which seems to have forgotten that while beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, racism -- whether due to colour, political creed, religion, class or wealth -- is always a crime against humanity, and one that the human race--had it any intelligence--should've learned 2000 years ago.
RACE: THE COLOUR OF SHAME is a great novel. I urge you to read it reflectively, for between the lines, you may notice that the book is not just about color, but also about the power of the wealthy to get away with murder. The Hoxworths got away with murder due to their ability to pay doctors, servants, etc., to look the other way, even while murdering an infant. The great thing about MMM's novel, RACE: THE COLOUR OF SHAME, is that it begs us to ask ourselves a pertinent question: What IS the color of shame? Is our shame black? Is our shame white? Is our shame yellow? red?
In my opinion, the color of shame is not a color at all.