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The Confessions of Matthew Strong

A Novel

Ousmane k. Power-greene

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Other Press LLC
15 December 2022
An NPR Best Book of the Year

A wildly original, incendiary story about race, redemption, the dangerous imbalances that continue to destabilize society, and speaking out for what's right.

An NPR Best Book of the Year

A wildly original, incendiary story about race, redemption, the dangerous imbalances that continue to destabilize society, and speaking out for what's right.

One could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at her top-tier university in New York-the same night her grandmother dies-or before that- the day Allie left Birmingham and never looked back. Or even before that- the day her mother disappeared. But for our purposes Allie's story begins at the end, when she is finally ready to tell her version of what happened with a white supremacist named Matthew Strong.

From the beginning, Allie had the clues- in a spate of possibly connected disappearances of other young Black women; in a series of recently restored plantation homes; in letters outlining an uprising; in maps of slave trade routes and old estates; in hidden caves and buried tunnels; and finally, in a confessional that should never have existed. They just have to make a case strong enough for the FBI and police to listen. This is when Allie herself disappears.

Allie is a survivor. She survived the newly post-Jim Crow south, she survived cancer, and she will survive being stalked and kidnapped by Matthew Strong, who seeks to ignite a revolution. The surprise in this doesn't lie in the question of will she be taken; it lies in how she and her community outsmart a tactical madman.
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Imprint:   Other Press LLC
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 146mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9781635422085
ISBN 10:   1635422086
Pages:   416
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Ousmane K. Power-Greene is the Program Director of Africana Studies and an Associate Professor of History at Clark University. Power-Greene is the author of Against Wind and Tide- The African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement, and his writing appears in The Harlem Renaissance Revisited- Politics, Arts, and Letters. He's been featured on All Things Considered, C-SPAN Book TV, and NPR's history podcast Throughline.

Reviews for The Confessions of Matthew Strong: A Novel

Ousmane K. Power-Greene is a writer who always thrills and challenges. His work is thoughtful and provocative, moving and meaningful. He's the real deal. -Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling Praise for Against Wind and Tide: Power-Greene's Against Wind and Tide is successful in engaging the historical literature on emigration and colonization and in revealing the schemes mounted by racist colonizationists and the black and white resistance to the movement. -Journal of African American History Well-written and cogently argued, Against Wind and Tide is a must-read for scholars interested in the African Colonization Movement. -American Historical Review


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