Molly's Place Venita Johnson - Newsome

32 Candles is a funny, romantic, and warm-hearted story of Davie Jones, who, if she doesn't stand in her own way, just might get the man of her dreams.

32 Candles is a funny, romantic, and warm-hearted story of Davie Jones, who, if she doesn't stand in her own way, just might get the man of her dreams.

This book is set in 1976 about a black woman named Dana Franklin, who on her 26th birthday, is suddenly transported back to the 1800’s to the antebellum South of Maryland in order to save a young white boy named Rufus Weylin a number of times from dying long enough for her great grandmother Hagar to be born and what she experienced during that time.

Paul Beatty has once again written a comical story about a group of characters that only his wild imagination can create. The unnamed, black narrator tells the story of his crazy life growing up with his single parent Dad in the ghetto town of Dickens, CA, with equally crazy people, to him coming before the Supreme Court on charges of enslavement and re-instituting segregation.