Caribbean & Diaspora Storytelling
The Gospel According to Silence
by L.J. Porter
She built a career on her voice. It was never hers to keep.
Avery Cole is three minutes from twenty thousand people when her mother calls at eleven at night. She walks into the light anyway, lifts the gold microphone, opens her mouth, and nothing comes out.
The search for what took her voice leads back to her father, Reverend Marcus Cole, and to a night in 1963 when a reservoir was opened on purpose and forty-three Black families woke to water coming through their doors. Her father knew. He said nothing, and he spent sixty years teaching his daughter to sing.
A literary mystery of the Black South, about inherited complicity and the cost of the things a family agrees never to say.
More by L.J. Porter · All authors
The Maroon House Reader
First look at every new title, straight from the publisher’s desk.
Excerpts before release, notes on what we’re acquiring, and the occasional dispatch from Jamaica. Sent when there’s something worth sending.
One email at a time. Unsubscribe whenever you like.