Review
From the Publisher
In this new contemporary work, Shockley introduces us to Hotchclaw, an historically Black College. The school is a survivor among the many small southern colleges that came into being after slavery to promote higher education for Black students in an era of segregation. Although struggling with financial difficulties, Hotchclaw is ready to celebrate its one hundredth anniversary.
But under the surface of the jubilation there are internal conflicts - professional, psychological and sexual – among the president and faculty. And, a shocking discovery about one of Hotchclaw’s most admired faculty members sets off a maze of entanglements reaching to a predominantly white northern university.
Ann Allen Shockley, with her dramatic sense and characteristic humor has crafted a vibrant novel that draws the reader to the characters, their rising tensions and the very real world she has created.
Celebrating Hotchclaw retails for $17. For more information contact A&M Books, by mail at P.O. Box 283, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 or by e-mail at AandMPublishers@aol.com.
Ann Allen Shockley is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and non-fiction. Loving Her was originally released by a mainstream publisher in 1974 and reprinted in 1997 by Northeastern University Press, Loving Her has been acclaimed as the first novel by an African American author to have an African American protagonist and to deal explicitly with an interracial lesbian relationship.
A&M Books is celebrating its tenth anniversary with the publication of Celebrating Hotchclaw. The new publication joins the A&M Books catalogue which includes the 14 novels of legendary feminist storyteller Sarah Aldridge. Aldridge is the pen name for Anyda Marchant who, along with her partner of 57 years Muriel Crawford operate A&M Books. The latest Sarah Aldridge novel, is O, Mistress Mine ($15), published in 2003. A&M also published the best-selling comic essay collection, As I Lay Frying – a Rehoboth Beach Memoir ($15) by columnist Fay Jacobs.
To receive more information, contact us at A&M Books, by mail at P.O. Box 283, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 or by e-mail at AandMPublishers@aol.com.
