Glorious by Bernice L. Mcfadden

Bernice L. Mcfadden has written another powerful novel. Glorious is true American Literature. She writes about a time and place like William Faulkner wrote about Yoknapatawpha County. While reading it and meeting all the people who entered Easter's life, the main character, I wanted to smile, cry and withdraw  into my inner soul because the very characters in Glorious are my ancestors. Therefore, in this novel I arrived again at  my comfort zone. My comfort zone is The Civil War, The Harlem Renaissance and The Civil Rights movement. I am most comfortable where the spirits of my ancestors have resided. I am  most fulfilled when someone comes along who can echo their voices. The talented author cake take me to a place where I know how to shape the handkerchief covering the hair of a woman. Bernice L. Mcfadden takes me to a place where men are strong and tender and know to make me dance and smile all at the same time while love children are being produced.

This book, Glorious, is very personal to me. This is why I could not write a reveiw immediately. I knew that at some point I would have to try and put the beauty of the novel in my words. To tell the truth, I was afraid. How could I write about a novel that reaches the epitome of successful writing? When I heard the title, Glorious, I could think only of the chords of an organ flowing throughout a cathedral. I knew she could have only become like aged wine from the valleys of France. It took the courage of a lion to write this review. This is why I am writing this one differently from all my other reviews. Have I met Bernice L. Mcfadden somewhere?  No, I just feel that way. Perhaps, it is just the kinship of two people who love the magnificence of words. I first met this powerful and enduring author in the book Sugar. I also have read The Warmest December. I am ready now to read Camilla's Roses.

When I saw Bernice L. Mcfadden's  name again recently, she was discussing Glorious. In my mind that one word rang a resounding note in my soul like a Gospel spiritual can do whether I am in a church, in an auditorium or in my favorite chair listening to the radio. In Glorious there is a wealth of beauty because Bernice L. Mcfadden knows how to weave a magical carpet that makes you hum a soft hymn or notes from Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Lady. You are on a ride that will take you through sorrow, love, hate and rage. This author touches each emotion with the right tone.

 If you are a reader, a bibliophile, you know the words, the sentences, the paragraphs of Bernice Mcfadden's books are like pure gold, like rainbows dropping from the sky after a storm and like the melody of a love song. Bernice L. Mcfadden weaves a spell over and over again. She takes us to places and makes us shout it is indeed GLORIOUS.  As a lover of quotes, I do have to write one here. Without it I will feel something is missing. Bernice L. Mcfadden's writes these words on her website. "I write to breathe life back into memory."Bernice Mcfadden