Bernice McFadden, Glorious Akashic, 2010
San Rafael screening of Every War Has Two Losers, a film by Haydn Reiss
Two compelling characters: a fictional one, who gets caught up in the Harlem Renaissance, and a real one, a pacifist poet named William Stafford. A new novel by Bernice McFadden is set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South, the Great Migration, and the civil rights era. Stafford's writings about peace, reconciliation, and human connection are the focus of a film by Haydn Reiss.