Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Ages 5 and up It took courage to be

It took courage to be listed in the Green Book

thirty-year-old secret

Wittingly fresh and stunningly relatable

the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie

He’s exhausted by being at once too black and not black enough for his African American peers and worn down by the expectations of his own Liberian family and community

Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Ages 5 and up It took courage to beGothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner space fictionDumass stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of African American life. Africanfuturism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner space fiction: Henry Dumass stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America. Championed by Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley, Dumass fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion,