![]() ![]() ![]() Hermia Drumm, like Josephine Baker, was an American who found greener pastures for herself in Europe in the 1920s and 30s, even dubbing herself Princess Hermia from a distant land. ![]() The young protagonist and narrator of the book Mathilda is a seriously talented, educated, and practically homeless underachiever who stumbles onto fascinating research into the Luxuries when she discovers a photograph of poet Hermia Drumm (the fictional composite of several black artists/socialites invented by Reinhold) while volunteering at the National Portrait Gallery Archive in London. The luscious, textured writing is astonishingly good, full of surprises and little-known information, such as the existence of a class of black angels called the Luxuries (alongside the seraphim, archangels, etc.), found in Ethiopian lore, but apparently omitted from Western religious and art history. It has already won the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Prize, and many more are sure to follow. On The Table Read, “ the best book magazine in the UK “, book blogger Laura Moreno shares her review of LOTE by Shola Von Reinhold.Īuthor Shola von Reinhold’s very first book, LOTE, is a tour de force. ![]()
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