The African Americans experience has been a generation curse Slavery made black men, women and children extremely vulnerable to brutal violence, the likes of which we cannot even imagine today: rape,prison, murder, torture, lynching's, tar and feathering, whipping, etc. Slavery also caused severe emotional and psychological trauma, which resulted in often times in self-hatred because blacks were taught that everything black was bad and everything white was good. Some blacks learned to hate the color of their skin, their physical features, and the texture of their hair because they were told over and over that they were ugly because they weren't European.
The eight golden pears grow mysteriously in the south, land of long ago... when slavery was only yesterday, and the myths and beliefs in curses and woe threaten behavior, and secret knowledge hangs in the humid air, like Spanish moss in the cottonwood trees... This unusual book is a parable-of evil, and rape, and the strange growths that can flower in secret gardens... Gold-the golden pears, the golden ornament that appears from nowhere-runs like a bright thread through this novel of the unseen and the unknown.
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