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The critically acclaimed debut novel from pioneering actress and writer Denise Nicholas tells the story of one young womans coming of age via the political and social upheavals of the civil rights movement. Nineteen-year-old Celeste Tyree leaves Ann Arbor to go to Pineyville, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964 to help found a voter registration project as part of Freedom Summer. As the summer unfolds, she confronts not only the political realities of race and poverty in this tiny town, but also deep truths about her family and herself. Drawing on Nicholas own involvement in the movement, Freshwater Road was hailed by Newsday as Perhaps the best work of fiction ever done about the civil rights movement. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In her rich, absorbing debut, actress Nicholas ( Room 222 ; In the Heat of the Night ) follows a young woman South to "trench Mississippi, gutbucket Mississippi" during the summer of 1964. The daughter of a Detroit bar owner/numbers runner and his estranged, class-conscious ex-wife (whose light complexion enables her to pass as white), Celeste Tyree has enjoyed a comfortable, sheltered middle-class life for all of her nearly two decades. But w

Who reads Freshwater Road?

Author

Nicholas, Denise

Publisher

Bolden

Published

2005

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.71 / 5 (194 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14