![]() Shifting the narrative between the characters' pasts and the present day, Diane McKinney-Whetstone deftly builds suspense as she captures with insight, poignancy, and humor, the scars, tenderness, and swagger of those not yet old, but no longer young, coming to the mean acceptance that life is finite after all, who knew. With its walls of windows gushing light and air, the Gen becomes the catalyst for secrets to be exposed. Kindle 9.99 Rate this book Blues Dancing Diane McKinney-Whetstone 4.25 814 ratings48 reviews Verdi and Rowe have been living a comfortable existence for the past twenty years. The American Revolution was not neat or pretty, and this book did a great job describing the chaos that came with the rebellion. But beneath the fun and froth, storms gather. Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s writing has been referred to as remarkable ( Publishers Weekly ), poetic ( Booklist ), and compelling ( Kirkus Reviews ). This book painted a picture of Philadelphia in 1776 that made it sound like Teheran in 1979, with Samuel Adams playing the role of the Ayatolla. They regularly convene to smoke weed, line dance, and debate politics and philosophy as the wine goes down like silk. ![]() Main character Cynthia befriends the Gen's two other Black residents, Bloc and Tish, as well as Lavia, who everyone assumes is from India. The Gen-short for Sexagenarian-is an upscale fifty-five-plus community located in the bucolic suburbs of Philadelphia. ![]() Residents of an active-living retirement community revert to lives of youthful indulgence, even as time-bomb secrets of their pasts tick toward explosion. ![]()
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