![]() ![]() The story is mainly set in 1860 Louisiana about a white slaveholding family and the lives they effect.Īt the heart of the story is the 80-year-old matriarch’s insistence on having a portrait sitting. I truly intended to keep that promise, but decades later, my subconscious along with a troubling racial climate conspired against me. Early in my career I told a group of girls I would never write about slavery, things of the past. James (Quill Tree Books, 2021).Ī Sitting in St. Tell us a little bit about your newest release, A Sitting in St. Rita is the celebrated author of One Crazy Summer (HarperCollins, 2010), Clayton Byrd Goes Underground (HarperCollins, 2017), and Jumped (HarperCollins, 2009). I am excited to welcome Rita Williams-Garcia back to Cynsations. ![]()
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