Black Folk Could Fly Ages 6 and up Can Sydney and Theo trust

Can Sydney and Theo trust each other – or themselves – long enough to find out

still bold

Moore’s intermingling of history and magical realism finds voice not just in these three characters but also in the fleeting spirit of the wind

where human consciousness goes when physical bodies die

to the Kongo sovereigns who heroically battled seventeenth-century European powers

Black Folk Could Fly Ages 6 and up Can Sydney and Theo trustA personal, social, and intellectual self portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies and