Go, Go, Said the Bird Anne Nall Stallworth

978-1-58838-140-8 1-58838-140-4 $17.95 paperback 368 pages NewSouth Books

Go, Go, Said the Bird adds new insight to a much-fabled locale--the Deep South during the sixties. Amid a cast of characters whose actions and ideas pound through the novel's pages, it is essentially the story of a young man, Bird Lassiter--a black boy with white skin. Trying to accept himself for what he cruelly learns he really is from his white “betters”—the Coy Watsons, the Klan—he suffers the derision not only of whites, but of his own race as well. In his own attempts to “pass,” he is unable to come to terms with himself, his race, or those who would protect or destroy him. In the savage climax, Bird must at last make his dire choice. about the author Anne Nall Stallworth is the author of three novels: This Time Next Year; Where the Bright Lights Shine; and Go, Go, Said the Bird.  She has published short fiction in McCall's and other stories, essays and poems in quarterlies all over the U.S. She has taught writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and now teaches a private class.