![]() ![]() ![]() Randall, best known as the author of the controversial bestseller The Wind Done Gone, as well as an award -winning songwriter, creates a fictional “memoir” of real-life figure Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson, a choreographer, nightclub emcee, and gossip columnist, that imagines his encounters with both legends and now-forgotten denizens of the black community that thrived from the 1930s to the early years of Motown in the 1960s.Īs he writes from his deathbed in the black-owned and operated Kirwood Hospital, Ziggy Johnson models his recollections on a Catholic Saints Day Book. Singular both in style and in the sweeping story it tells, Alice Randall’s kaleidoscopic novel, Black Bottom Saints is a celebration of African American life, culture and achievement as refracted through the prism of a famed Detroit neighborhood during its decades of glory. Join us for the virtual book launch of Alice Randall's novel Black Bottom Saints on Sunday, August 23rd at 4pm! To purchase the book : Bunch of Grapes (50 signed bookplates available!). Virtual Book Launch: Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall ![]()
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