Faith and the Good Thing (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Johnson
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: Rural Georgia and urban Chicago, Illinois
- Principal Characters: Faith Cross, Lavidia Cross, Todd (Big Todd) Cross, The Swamp Woman, Alpha Omega Holmes, Richard M. Barrett, Isaac Maxwell, Arnold Tippis
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Novel
Faith and the Good Thing is a half-philosophic, half-comic narrative that describes the metaphysical odyssey of young Faith Cross. That narrative is related by a voice that is familiar, folksy, and intrusive; it is a voice, moreover, that Charles Johnson favors in much of his fiction. As a result, the reader is ever conscious of listening to (as much as reading) a story being told by a highly self-conscious storyteller.
The very physical facts of her parents’ deaths have left Faith alone and suddenly dislocated, though there was tension enough in her...
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