Fire in Beulah
by Askew, Rilla
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 13
- 9780142000243
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Set during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush, Rilla Askew 's Fire in Beulah is a mesmerizing story that centers on the complex relationship between Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter's high-strung wife, and Graceful, her enigmatic black maid. Their juxtaposing storiesand those of others close to themunfold against a volatile backdrop of oil-boom opulence, fear, hatred, lynchings that climax in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, when whites burned the city's properous black community. Askew's award-winning first novel, The Mercy Seat , was praised for its astute diepiction of family bonds and the beauty of American landscape. Now she explores the American race story with the same perception.
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- Title
- Fire in Beulah
- Author
- Askew, Rilla
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0142000248
- ISBN 13
- 9780142000243
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
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