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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Today’s Little
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Crystal Wilkinson
Rising African American Writer
Author Crystal Wilkinson is
the winner of the 2016 Ernest J.
Gaines Award for Literary Excel-
lence for her novel The Birds of
Opulence.
The award is named in honor of
one of Louisiana’s most beloved
storytellers and serves to recog-
nize rising African-American fic-
tion writers while also expanding
the audience for black authored
literature.
The Birds of Opulence is
Wilkinson’s first novel and centers
on several generations of wom-
en in the bucolic southern black
township of Opulence as they live
with and sometimes surrender to
madness. The Goode-Brown fam-
ily, led by matriarch and pillar of
Oddville
Comedy
Debut
Thomas Schroyer
performs for Oddville:
A New Vaudevillian
Tradition, a monthly
performance
showcase of some
of Portland’s best
comedic performers,
coming Sunday,
Jan. 8 and every
second Sunday of the
month from 7 p.m. to
11pm at The Steep
and Thorny Way to
Heaven at Southeast
Second Avenue and
Hawthorne.
the community Minnie Mae, is
plagued by old secrets and embar-
rassment over mental illness and
illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single
mother Francine Clark is haunted
by her dead, lightning-struck hus-
band and forced to fight against
both the moral judgment of the
community and her own rebel-
lious daughter.
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