Based on classical epic structure, the saga of Johnnie, the mute daughter of an incestuous union, and her odyssey in search of her story confronts issues of race, xenophobia, love and shattered myths

Thereafter Johnnie

Literature & Fiction

Herron, Carolivia

United States

Random House]

Nappy Hair

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Demco Media

Relates the saga of Johnnie, the mute daughter of an incestuous union, and her odyssey in search of her story that confronts issues of race, xenophobia, love, and shattered myths

Vintage

Now in Dragonfly: a lively, empowering story about Brenda's knotted-up, twisted, nappy hair and how it got to be that way! Told in the African-American "call and response" tradition, this story leaps off the page, along with vibrant illustrations by Joe Cepeda. Winner of a Parenting Reading Magic Award

Nappy Hair (Dragonfly Books)

Dragonfly Books

Thereafter Johnnie by Carolivia Herron weaves beauty, sorrow and tragic vision into the fall of an incestuous African American family. The failure of this middle-class family of Washington, DC is linked to failures of national destiny, religion, and the crime of slavery.

Contemporary

1st Book Library

An elderly black grandmother passes on the story of the family’s Jewish origins to her young granddaughter, Carol Olivia. As family members flee the Spanish Inquisition, are kidnapped by pirates and eventually sail to America, one daughter in each generation is given the name Olivia, from the Hebrew Shulamit meaning “peace,” to honor the Jewish part of their ancestry. Critically-acclaimed author Carolivia Herron (Nappy Hair) shares this engaging, multicultural tale is based on her own family's heritage.

Always an Olivia: A Remarkable Family History

Biographies

Kar-Ben Publishing ®

During the Inquistion in fifteenth-century Spain, when a Jewish family flees to Portugal, then to Venice, their young daughter is captured by Barbary pirates, who attempt to ransom her in North Africa, but with the help of the military, she escapes to the Geechee Islands near Georgia, where her children marry into families of African descent.

Kar-Ben Pub

Come to Kenilworth, a neighborhood in Washington, DC in the year 1931, where Little Georgia Johnson lives with her seven siblings and their parents. On a very hot August day Little Georgia leaves her sisters and brothers at the house, and makes the long, long walk to Mr. Benson's store to buy apples for everyone.

Little Georgia and the Apples: Aunt Georgia's First Catalpa Tale

Teen & Young Adult

AuthorHouse

Shirah Shulamit Ojero has four loves, her African American culture, her Jewish heritage, academic study — especially the study of literary epics — and her city, Washington, DC. Peacesong DC displays the interconnection of these four loves as Shirah grows up in the Washington DC neighborhoods of Mayfair Mansions, Kenilworth, Anacostia, Takoma DC. and downtown. Throughout her life, Shirah connects with the buildings and images of the National Mall which she considers the epic center of the United States. After graduating from DC Public Schools (Neval Thomas, Woodson, and Coolidge), Shirah pursues academic degrees at Howard University, Eastern Baptist College, Villanova University, the Folger Library Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania. Although all of the stories told in Peacesong DC are based on actual events in the author’s life, the book is classified as fiction rather than non-fiction because the stories bend toward the arc of storytelling rather than that of rigid facts. If something in the story appears particularly improbable, it is likely to be the truth. For the full hilarious story of how Shirah (aka Asenath) becomes an educator at Harvard University (West Cambridge U) and a librarian in ancient Egypt, see the author’s longer work, Asenath and the Origin of Nappy Hair.

Peacesong DC: A Jewish Africana Academia Epic Tale of Washington City

Street to Street Epic Publications

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Thereafter Johnnie

Nappy Hair

Thereafter Johnnie

Nappy Hair (Dragonfly Books)

Thereafter Johnnie

Always an Olivia: A Remarkable Family History

Always an Olivia: A Remarkable Family History

Little Georgia and the Apples: Aunt Georgia's First Catalpa Tale

Peacesong DC: A Jewish Africana Academia Epic Tale of Washington City