“A deeply textured narrative that proves as rich and fulfilling as a well-cooked meal. Tumbling is an accomplished novel, with sharply drawn characters, exuberant prose, plenty of period detail and a wise, forgiving outlook on family life.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review McKinney-Whetstone captures the formidable struggle to protect both a community and a family.” - New York Times Book Review “Even the air is palpable in Tumbling…The story moves forth on the power of Ms. Suddenly and unexpectedly a family, Herbie, Noon, and their two girls draw closer-until an outside threat to run a highway through their community awakens a fire in Noon, causing her to rise up and fight to hold her family and her community together. Then one day an infant girl is left on their doorstep, and later it happens again this time a five-year-old girl is abandoned at their home. But their marriage remains unconsummated because of a horrible event in Noon’s past, so each seeks comfort elsewhere: Noon in the warm acceptance of the neighborhood church Herbie in the arms of Ethel, a jazz singer. Noon and Herbie are deeply in love and living in their tightly knit African American neighborhood. Set in South Philadelphia during the 1940s and 1950s, Tumbling combines the mood of an urban community with the vitality of its inhabitants to tell a story of the ties that bind us, and the secrets that keep us apart. Purchase Audiobook Tumbling A Wall Street Journal’s Book Club selection
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