Four Spirits

Weaving together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, and the events of peaceful protest and violent repression, Sena Jeter Naslund creates a tapestry of American social transformation at once intimate and epic.

In Birmingham, Alabama, twenty-year-old Stella Silver, an idealistic white college student, is sent reeling off her measured path by events of 1963. Combining political activism with single parenting and night-school teaching, African American Christine Taylor discovers she must heal her own bruised heart to actualize meaningful social change. Inspired by the courage and commitment of the civil rights movement, the child Edmund Powers embodies hope for future change. In this novel of maturation and growth, Naslund makes vital the intersection of spiritual, political, and moral forces that have redefined America.

Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 05/19/2009
Pages: 524
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780060936693

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 26
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 78112 / Four Spirits


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/07/2004 pg. 30

About the Author
Naslund, Sena Jeter: -

Sena Jeter Naslund is a cofounder and program director of the Spalding University (Louisville) brief-residency MFA in Writing, where she edits The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press. A winner of the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction award, she is the author of eight previous works of fiction, including Ahab's Wife, a finalist for the Orange Prize. She recently retired from her position as Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville.