Jewell Parker Rhodes

Rhodes is the author of the Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner and Today Show Al Roker Book Club Selection, Ninth Ward, a children's book set in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. This story of resilience, family, love, and transformation is a wonderful book for the whole family ... (more)to read and discuss together.

You are invited to join us at the Douglass Branch Library 3666 Grand River, (313) 833-9714 for an author visit by Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of Douglass’ Women. RSVP required.

Does having a mistress and a wife diminish the contributions of Frederick Douglass to American History? You decide. Meet the author at the Fredrick Douglass Branch Library in Detroit Public Library Douglass' Women A Novel By Jewell Parker Rhodes Frederick Douglass, the great African-American abolitionist, ... (more)was a man who cherished freedom in life and in love. In this ambitious work of historical fiction, Douglass' passions come vividly to life in the form of two women: Anna Murray Douglass and Ottilie Assing. Douglass' Women is an imaginative rendering of these two women -- one black, the other white -- in Douglass' life. Anna, his wife, was a free woman of color who helped Douglass escape as a slave. She bore Douglass five children and provided him with a secure, loving home while he traveled the world with his message. Along the way, Douglass satisfied his intellectual needs in the company of Ottilie Assing, a white woman of German-Jewish descent, who would become his mistress for decades to come. How these two women find solidarity in their shared love for Douglass -- and his vision for a free America -- is at the heart of Jewell Parker Rhodes' extraordinary, epic novel. Meet the author Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 6 PM at the Frederick Douglass Branch of the Detroit Public Library, 3666 Grand River north of Trumbull in the Woodbridge area of Detroit. Convenient free parking in the Library lot on Grand River or nearby streets. Jewell Parker Rhodes will discuss her book followed by a Q&A, the event is free and open to the public, however, reservations are required. Please RSVP to, 313-833-4042 or twyatt@detroipubliclibrary.org, books will be available for purchase. Bookclubs are welcome, please call for details on a special author session for your bookclub 313-833-4042 or bemartin@detroitpubliclibary.org. Winner of the 2003 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles award for outstanding writing and the Black Caucus of the merican Library Association literary award.

Join us as author, Jewell Parker Rhodes, returns to read from and sign her new New Orleans novel, Yellow Moon.

Marie Levant, the great-great grandaughter of the Voodoo Queen, Marie Leveau, knows better than anyone
New Orleans’s brutal past—the legacy of slavery, poverty, racisim and sexism—and as an ER doctor, she
treats its current victims. When she sleeps, she dreams of blood. Rain, never ending. ... (more)The river is rising and
the yellow moon warns of an ancient evil, a spirit created by colonial oppression. Echoing with the heartache
and triumph of the African-American experience, the soulful rhythms of jazz, and the horrors of
racial oppression, Yellow Moon is part two of the New Orleans trilogy that began with Voodoo Season—a
magical realist fiction of the legend of voodoo priesess Marie Leveau—into present day.