Neicy

In an Arkansas women's prison bathroom with her mother, girlchild Neicy scratches on the cold tile floor as activity in the adjacent stall establishes the emphatic sexuality that permeates her life. A successful actress in her forties, she is pretty, smart, caring, and committed to social justice, but still sexually self-destructive and confused about love and intimacy. When her promising Broadway career collapses, she plunges into a dark night of the soul. What is the value of worldly achievement measured against true self-worth? How does magnificent physical connection become conscious and lasting human union? Neicy's pain is tempered by friendships, faith, humor and grace. Everything edges to a riotous climax when she travels on a "transform or die" mission to her wise, dapper stepfather's seventy-ninth birthday party. Thoughtful, infused with spirituality, and inventive about how unconscious material seeps into everyday life, NEICY compels us to examine difficult sexual issues -- promiscuity, repression, abuse, powerlessness, and fear -- and points the way to enlightened sexual celebration.

Author: Akasha Hull
Publisher: Aurelia Works
Published: 10/20/2012
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780988360709
About the Author
Akasha Hull is a writer, critic, lecturer, professor, and poet (formerly published as Gloria T. Hull). She is widely known as a co-editor of All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies. Her other academic feminist texts include Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. She is also the author of Healing Heart: Poems - described by Ntozake Shange as "the voice of a free, fiercesome, sensual and vivid woman of color" - and of Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women, which was endorsed by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and praised by Publishers Weekly as "powerful, practical, and nourishing gumbo of the heart and spirit." She was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and is the mother of one grown son. NEICY is her first novel.