Wimberley revisits the rural north Florida featured in A Tinker's Damn () in this powerful portrayal of a segregated community at the height of the Civil Rights movement. In Cilla Handsom. · Award Winning Author Darryl Wimberley. DARRYL WIMBERLEY has been recognized for both novels noir and literary work. A Tinker’s Damn won the ForeWord Award for “Best Literary Novel” in The King of Colored Town was the first novel to garner the Willie Morris Award for Fiction in Darryl writes, works, and lives with his family in Austin. Set primarily in /64, this book tells the story of Celli, a poor African American teen living in a shack in Colored Town, a desolate branch of Laureate Florida. Celli is a musical savant whose life changes dramatically after being caught stealing classical sheet music from the band room at the all white high school This book made me want to join a book club.4/5.
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