Their search for a place to be who they want to be is an exhilarating, painful, magical adventure. Living in a system stacked against them, Redwood and Aidan’s power and talent are torment and joy. The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal and determine the course of today and tomorrow. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a “city of the future.” They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. This “dreaming in public” becomes common culture and part of what transforms immigrants and “native” born into Americans. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood and Wildfire is a novel of what might have been.Īt the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville which slides into moving pictures. Redwood and Wildfire is coming out in February via Torpublishing:
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