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Paperback: 314 pages (June 15, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 9176370364 ISBN-13: 978-9176370360<\/p>\n
In his arresting novel, A Seeping Wound, <\/em>Darryl Wimberley forcefully chronicles life in one of the many slave\u00a0camps of the rural American South in the early twentieth century\u2014a place of persistent violence and evil, though it also hosts moments of human kindness. Martha Longfoot is the story\u2019s narrator, a half Muskogee Indian raised in the camp. She is also the camp\u2019s medicine woman, a hard-won status that keeps her safe from the sexual violence that pervades the place. Martha comes across as a character with dimension who is worthy of respect. Her robust narrative, enhanced by her powerful vocabulary and occasional biblical references, is compelling, if it sometimes strains credulity. She begins the book angry and distrustful of white people, and ends the tale by saving white folks who are unjustly enslaved. Martha brings some closure to the experience by asking \u201cWhy does one wound heal while another festers?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Other characters in \u00a0A Seeping Wound <\/em>are less complex, including the ruthless Captain Riggs, who runs the turpentine camp. This man, and the thugs working for him, are predictably violent, uncaring, cruel, and unchanging. Veteran Prescott Hampton, though, shines, and he is set up in the narrative as a contrast to Martha, as a camp outsider. He comes from New York searching for his sister and brother-in-law, who are enslaved in the turpentine camp. Where Martha is poor, uneducated, and surprisingly literate, Hampton is educated and comes from a financially comfortable family headed by his father, a journalist. But, Hampton and Martha are commonly flawed\u2014each suffers from a seeping wound that must be healed. Wimberley adroitly uses this wound image as both a cause of pain and a source of productivity, whether in a pine tree being tapped for sap or a human gashed by the vicissitudes of life.<\/p>\n Historically accurate, \u00a0A Seeping Wound\u00a0 <\/em>is a dark story of human cruelty, and an ode to the preeminence of\u00a0<\/strong>the human spirit. \u00a0– \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>JOHN SENGER<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Paperback: 314 pages (June 15, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 9176370364 ISBN-13: 978-9176370360 Click Here To Order A Seeping Wound – RELEASE DATE –\u00a0 Jun 15, 2016 In his arresting novel, A Seeping Wound, Darryl Wimberley forcefully chronicles life in one of the many slave\u00a0camps of the rural American South in the early twentieth century\u2014a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrylwimberley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrylwimberley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrylwimberley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrylwimberley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrylwimberley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darrylwimberley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/darrylwimberley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrylwimberley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrylwimberley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrylwimberley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}