Woven together they form Black Bottom Saints a novel that has been hailed as an “instant American classic” and a “must read now triumph. The profiles, some as short as three pages, can be read as stand-alone short stories. Elena must look inside herself to discover if she can defeat the approaching darkness, be accepted by the people of Paegeia, bring her dragon back to light and. Ziggy’s saints include Tanya Blanding, a four-year-old Black girl shot dead in her home by a Michigan State Trooper in the summer of ‘67 poet Robert Hayden golfer Teddy Rhodes and singer Della Reese. In his pages we meet Mari, an endangered young Black writer, and the 60 saints Ziggy sends to save her. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. On his deathbed, Ziggy (1914-1968) Johnson, nightclub MC, dance school founder, and entertainment columnist writes a Saints Day Book in which he recalls the joys and challenges of a life lived among bold-faced names, breadwinners, and small fry who attend his Detroit dancing school. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously.
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