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Chainey Fields, a declining African American community, is experiencing significant changes. Taylor Charles and her two best friends, Leticia and Renee, are all back together again in their old community. But Chainey Fields is undergoing the same growing pains as the trio's relationships. The three women learn to negotiate their neighborhood as adults while tackling the challenges presented by the men in their lives. A painful secret has bound David to this historical community which he feels driven to help rejuvenate. And Carl has followed his beloved back to her community where he now feels ostracized by her because of his race. And Matthew, who grew up in Chainey Fields, is shocked when his lifelong animosity for one of the women begins to turn into desire. The women realize that relationships and communities are very similar, you have to stay involved and fight to get what you want out of them.
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By lydia morris brown-johnson (Cincinnati, OH)
This first novel, depicting the rich and intricate tapesty of everyday life in a small community (which happens to be African-American), opens an extraordinarily clear window into the joys and suffering, the tragedies and triumphs of ordinary people. Everything about this work held me enthralled. It opens on a dark and stormy night--no less--a mise-en-scene that in lesser hands might have been a hackneyed disaster. But at the end of the chapter, I was left breathless, in dumbfounded amazement, and HOOKED! From that point on, I was on a roller-coaster ride layered with suspense and sweet serendipity. McNair immerses the reader in gripping detail and imagery, making us privy to the cultural tableaux unique to the African-American experience in the beauty parlor, the Baptist Church, on the street corner, in interracial relationships (and not your typical "jungle-fever" variety, either), in child rearing, in the attitudes of the Black middle class, and in the quiet desperation of the poor and the dispossessed--just struggling "to stay afloat, too burnt out on their day-to-day poverty subsistence to look too far into the future." Page after page, I was amazed at the breadth and depth of McNair's knowledge of the human condition, in general, and the psycho-social intricacies of the African-American community in particular. It is a knowledge that resonates in her graceful narrative and in her deftly drawn ensemble cast of living, breathing, unforgettable characters--"giant slayers" all--imbued with every conceivable moral and emotional complexity. This eloquently provocative, passionately engaged work is nothing less than an authentic vision of Life and its indomitable Spirit. I can only hope and pray that Giant Slayers is the first of many from McNair.
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