Arrangement in Black and White
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1494852128 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Everet’s from Connecticut, a civil rights lawyer on the rise toward greater recognition, and their lives take a tense turn when he decides to run for political office just as Margy moves forward in her own career. Arrangement in Black and White captures the conflicts that give edge and interest to all meaningful love stories, yet it does so with an eye toward modern women, interracial politics, and the human inability to balance passion with social, public life. Margy’s from Iowa, an artist, the product of an abusive mother and neglectful father. It is a powerful story for contemporary readers.. But their conflicts are more than racial. She’s white; he’s black
However, while they often battle about these matters, they barely even discuss Margy’s repeated infidelity. Her husband, Everet Hamilton, is a successful African-American civil rights attorney from Connecticut who’s considering running for public office. As Misurella unspools this engaging tale, he also examines some heavy issues, including gender equality, incest and sexual abuse. The couple’s biggest quarrels stem from his political aspirations and his lack of respect for Margy’s artistic career. As Everet’s career begins to take off, their disagreements grow increasingly volatile until they reach a near-catastrophic boiling point. Through a combination of fast-paced plotting, quick-witted dialogue and well-placed flashbacks, readers learn a great deal about the events and character traits that led Margy to her many
"Arrangement in Black and White" according to KarenRachel. The Arrangement in Black and White was a moving and complex book about an interracial marriage replete with grief, trauma and ambition. The husband, Everet, is a Black civil rights attorney, who comes from a loving and respectful family while his wife, Margy is a white wife and mother with mentally ill, abusive parents. The impact of this abuse is felt throughout the book as Margy spins increasingly out of control as her husband's ambitions take center stage and she continues a long-standing pattern of having adulterous affairs with h. A gripping and readable story of an interracial marriage and triumph over adversity Retired Prof. of Literature, A. Rubino Fred Misurella is a very readable author. We feel with his characters and live inside his books because of the careful details he provides with his accessible and well-crafted prose. His prose is richly vivid. From the very first pages of his book, the reader is absorbed by the story of Margy, the main protagonist. We feel her emotions, her fears, her longing, and are pulled into her story. Misurella is a fine writer who captures the conflicts that an interracial marriage must endure due to political and social forces. When Margy grow
His stories and non-fiction have been in Partisan Review, Salmagundi, Kansas Quarterly, Voices in Italian Americana, L'Atelier du roman (in France), The Christian Science Monitor, The Village Voice, and The New York Times Book Review. Other writers have said this about his fiction: “Fred Misurella tells the complex, and sometimes secret truth about what it is to