![]() ![]() Shifting the narrative between the characters’ pasts and the present day, Diane McKinney-Whetstone deftly builds suspense as she captures with insight, poignancy, and humor, the scars, tenderness, and swagger of those not yet old, but no longer young, coming to the mean acceptance that life is finite after all, who knew. With its walls of windows gushing light and air, the Gen becomes the catalyst for secrets to be exposed. ![]() ![]() Their camaraderie is exhilarating.īut beneath the fun and froth, storms gather. In the 26 years since her debut novel, Tumbling, was published to wide acclaim, she’s become known for detailing the African American experience through rich prose and vibrant. They regularly convene to smoke weed, line dance, and debate politics and philosophy as the wine goes down like silk. Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s writing has been referred to as remarkable (Publishers Weekly), poetic (Booklist), and compelling (Kirkus Reviews). ![]() Main character Cynthia befriends the Gen’s two other Black residents, Bloc and Tish, as well as Lavia, who everyone assumes is from India. The Gen-short for Sexagenarian-is an upscale fifty-five-plus community located in the bucolic suburbs of Philadelphia. In 1971, she joined the faculty of University of Wisconsin-Madison, attaining the rank of full Professor at the age of 30. Residents of an active-living retirement community revert to lives of youthful indulgence, even as time-bomb secrets of their pasts tick toward explosion. She received her MS from West Virginia University in child development and family relations in 1970 and, in 1971, earned her PhD from WVU in life-span developmental psychology. ![]()
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