{"id":1090,"date":"2006-04-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/04\/29\/a-caged-bird-sings-and-learns-to-fly-on-her-own\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T07:48:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:48:53","slug":"a-caged-bird-sings-and-learns-to-fly-on-her-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/29\/a-caged-bird-sings-and-learns-to-fly-on-her-own\/","title":{"rendered":"A caged bird sings &#8230; and learns to fly on her own"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A caged bird sings &#8230; and learns to fly on her own<\/h3>\n<h5>Reviewed by Karen Thompson<\/h5>\n<p><!-- begin body-content --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A MILLION NIGHTINGALES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Susan Straight<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Pantheon Books, 333 pages, $24.95<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Susan Straight, author of the best seller &ldquo;I Been to Sorrow&rsquo;s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots,&rdquo; writes about slavery and race mixing in her sixth novel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&ldquo;A Million Nightingales&rdquo; gives us Moinette, the mulatto daughter of an enslaved laundress in 19th-century Louisiana. Moinette is the product of a visitor&rsquo;s whim: A white sugar planter chooses her mother for sex.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Far from being a traditional slave narrative focused on only horrors and hardships, though, &ldquo;A Million Nightingales&rdquo; sometimes resembles a poem with its sprinklings of French Creole and Moinette&rsquo;s free-form musings.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/mld\/thestate\/entertainment\/14452548.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A caged bird sings &#8230; and learns to fly on her own Reviewed by Karen Thompson A MILLION NIGHTINGALES by Susan Straight Pantheon Books, 333 pages, $24.95 Susan Straight, author of the best seller&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,141],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-news-clips","tag-popular-culture-and-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-hA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}