The Fisher King

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This was an enjoyable read, but I thought it ended too abruptly. It tells the story of a late jazz musician and his namesake. Young Sonny comes to Brooklyn with his fathermothersisterbrother, as he calls Hattie, the woman raising him in Paris. Sonny meets family he didn't know he had, and the reader......more

I enjoyed this book. The writing and story never waned. The energy carried right through the whole book. The description of the characters and the music and the interaction of the characters was wonderful. A great story.......more

The Fisher King by Paule Marshall is a novel that is grounded in Brooklyn, where Paule grew up and wrote about in other works. This novel looks at a long history of families, those tensions between West Indians and Black Americans from the South, yet this legacy is the past but dominates the present......more

Paule Marshall does an excellent job dealing with several themes, issues and obstacles in life facing families. She starts out slowly, setting up the situation and the characters, such as the great grandmothers - Florence Varina, the "high-yellow" southerner, and Ulene Payne, a demented and bitter W......more