Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Hamilton
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s, with flashbacks to a decade earlier
- Setting: A small Midwestern city and southwestern Ohio
- Principal Characters: Sweet Teresa “Tree” Pratt, Dabney “Dab” Pratt, Viola “Muh Vy” Sweet Rush Pratt, Sylvester Wiley D. Smith, Miss Cenithia Pricherd
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: African Americans, Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, 1970’s, Child rearing or parenting, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Adolescence, Teenagers, Ghosts or apparitions, Midwest, Ohio, Child abuse, Emotions, Single parents or single-parent families, Death or dying, Sick persons, Loneliness, Mental retardation
- Locales: Ohio, Midwest (U.S.)
The Novel
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush is a ghost story with a purpose. Through the supernatural intervention of Brother Rush, Tree Pratt comes to understand something of her family’s past, which helps her to deal with her present problems and work out the identity that she will carry into a hopefully happier future.
Tree is fourteen and has just “begun growing into a woman,” which is why the “street dudes” she passes on her way home from school have started to notice her. Yet Tree is no typical teenage girl; in some ways, she is the mother of the...
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