![]() ![]() ![]() Unexpectedly, Noon rises up and takes the lead in the opposition, fighting for all she's worth to keep her family and community together. When a road planned by the city council threatens to break up this South Philadelphia neighborhood, the community must band together. ![]() While she seeks salvation in the church, Herbie gains sexual gratification in the arms of a bewitching jazz singer named Ethel, a woman who profoundly affects both Noon's and Herbie's lives when she leaves with them, first, a baby girl and then later, a five-year-old named Liz. Its central characters, Herbie and Noon, are a loving but unconventional couple whose marriage remains unconsummated for many years as Noon struggles to repossess her sexuality after a brutal attack in her past. Diane McKinney-Whetstone's lyrical first novel, Tumbling, vividly captures a tightly knit African-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the forties and fifties. ![]()
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