Trinity: A Novel
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Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a Black nurse who declares, âLord Jesus, if that ainât the blackest little baby born this side of heaven.â Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestorsâ promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippiâs red clay tobacco fields, and Benjamin Junior, his son and Lottie Rebeccaâs father, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where the post Korean War GI Bill promises prosperity. These two generations of men are haunted by the Mother-Spirit who did not survive enslavementâs post-traumatic stress violence. Trinity is the riveting story of the daughter-spirit born to stitch love back into the scattered wombs of her Black mothers and call love back into the fishing blues songs of her Black male kin. Lottie Rebecca Lee is the Divine spirited daughter born to set everything back up right again, in this daringly original novel.
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Zelda Lockhart holds a PhD in expressive art therapies, an MA in literature, and a certificate in writing, directing, and editing from the New York Film Academy. Lockhart is the author of Fifth Born, Cold Running Creek, and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle. Her fiction, poetry, and essays appear in several anthologies, as well as in periodicals such as Chautauqua and Obsidian II, and on USAToday.com. Lockhart is director at Her Story Garden Studios: Inspiring Black Women & Girls to Self-Define, Heal, and Liberate Through Our Stories & Nature. She continues her work as a writer and speaker, facilitating workshops across the US. She lives in North Carolina.
