Fire in Beulah

Rilla Askew

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Penguin USA
31 December 2001

Historical fiction; Social & cultural history

""A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families - one white, one Black - whose lives are woven together and then shattered"" (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop for this riveting novel about one of the worst incidents of violence in American history. Althea Whiteside, an oil-wildcatter's high-strung white wife, and her enigmatic Black maid, Graceful, share a complex connection during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush. Their juxtaposing stories - and those of others close to them - unfold as tensions mount to a violent climax in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, during which whites burned the city's prosperous Black neighborhood to the ground. The massacre becomes the crucible that melds and tests each of the character in this masterful exploration of the American race story and the ties that bind us irrevocably to one another.

By: Rilla Askew
Imprint: Penguin USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 362g
ISBN: 9780142000243
ISBN 10: 0142000248
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 31 December 2001
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rilla Askew is the author of Strange Business, a collection of stories, and of the novel The Mercy Seat, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Award and winner of the Western Heritage Award and the Oklahoma Book Award. Her novel about the Tulsa Race Massacre, Fire in Beulah, received the American Book Award in 2002 and was chosen for Oklahoma's statewide reading program in 2007. Other titles include the novels Harpsong and Kind of Kin and a collection of creative nonfiction, Most American- Notes from a Wounded Place. Askew's essays and short fiction have appeared in AGNI, Tin House, World Literature Today, Nimrod, Prize Stories- The O. Henry Awards, and elsewhere. In 2009 Askew received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma.