A Wave From Mama: The Slavery and Beyond Series
High-flying drama in Post-Slavery New York during the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

A former slave gets his dream job working on the bridge project, but finds himself at war with the gangs of Irishtown. Will the corrupt Metropolitan Police save or sacrifice him?

1863 Weeksville, Brooklyn: The free Black community of Weeksville becomes home to an unusually small boy and his mother who fled Manhattan during New York's Draft Riots. When his mother succumbs to her injuries, the boy swears revenge against everyone and everything that contributed to her death. His diminutive size and acrobatic climbing abilities make him a spectacle to behold, while his awkward social habits make him an outcast to everyone in Weeksville, except the adopted family he swears to protect.

When his stepbrother is attacked, the boy becomes embroiled in a battle between the Irish Gangs and Whiskey Kings of Irishtown while the corrupt Metropolitan Police sit on the sidelines. The backdrop of the action is the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the racial tensions of the period.

Will the boy survive the ordeals of the day and achieve his dream of being a high-flying tower man on the bridge project? Or, will he become another victim of the Irish gangs and never know the joy of standing atop the tallest structure in North America?

Lovers of African American Historical Fiction and authors like Ginny Dye, Sabra Waldfogel, Laila Ibrahim, and Colson Whitehead will love this novel set in Brooklyn in the mid to late 1800s.

A Wave From Mama is a stand-alone story connected in concept with the other volumes in the series. Scroll up and grab a copy today.
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A Wave From Mama: The Slavery and Beyond Series
High-flying drama in Post-Slavery New York during the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

A former slave gets his dream job working on the bridge project, but finds himself at war with the gangs of Irishtown. Will the corrupt Metropolitan Police save or sacrifice him?

1863 Weeksville, Brooklyn: The free Black community of Weeksville becomes home to an unusually small boy and his mother who fled Manhattan during New York's Draft Riots. When his mother succumbs to her injuries, the boy swears revenge against everyone and everything that contributed to her death. His diminutive size and acrobatic climbing abilities make him a spectacle to behold, while his awkward social habits make him an outcast to everyone in Weeksville, except the adopted family he swears to protect.

When his stepbrother is attacked, the boy becomes embroiled in a battle between the Irish Gangs and Whiskey Kings of Irishtown while the corrupt Metropolitan Police sit on the sidelines. The backdrop of the action is the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the racial tensions of the period.

Will the boy survive the ordeals of the day and achieve his dream of being a high-flying tower man on the bridge project? Or, will he become another victim of the Irish gangs and never know the joy of standing atop the tallest structure in North America?

Lovers of African American Historical Fiction and authors like Ginny Dye, Sabra Waldfogel, Laila Ibrahim, and Colson Whitehead will love this novel set in Brooklyn in the mid to late 1800s.

A Wave From Mama is a stand-alone story connected in concept with the other volumes in the series. Scroll up and grab a copy today.
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A Wave From Mama: The Slavery and Beyond Series

A Wave From Mama: The Slavery and Beyond Series

by A. Robert Allen
A Wave From Mama: The Slavery and Beyond Series

A Wave From Mama: The Slavery and Beyond Series

by A. Robert Allen

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High-flying drama in Post-Slavery New York during the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

A former slave gets his dream job working on the bridge project, but finds himself at war with the gangs of Irishtown. Will the corrupt Metropolitan Police save or sacrifice him?

1863 Weeksville, Brooklyn: The free Black community of Weeksville becomes home to an unusually small boy and his mother who fled Manhattan during New York's Draft Riots. When his mother succumbs to her injuries, the boy swears revenge against everyone and everything that contributed to her death. His diminutive size and acrobatic climbing abilities make him a spectacle to behold, while his awkward social habits make him an outcast to everyone in Weeksville, except the adopted family he swears to protect.

When his stepbrother is attacked, the boy becomes embroiled in a battle between the Irish Gangs and Whiskey Kings of Irishtown while the corrupt Metropolitan Police sit on the sidelines. The backdrop of the action is the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the racial tensions of the period.

Will the boy survive the ordeals of the day and achieve his dream of being a high-flying tower man on the bridge project? Or, will he become another victim of the Irish gangs and never know the joy of standing atop the tallest structure in North America?

Lovers of African American Historical Fiction and authors like Ginny Dye, Sabra Waldfogel, Laila Ibrahim, and Colson Whitehead will love this novel set in Brooklyn in the mid to late 1800s.

A Wave From Mama is a stand-alone story connected in concept with the other volumes in the series. Scroll up and grab a copy today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781534936904
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 08/02/2016
Series: Slavery and Beyond Series , #2
Pages: 248
Sales rank: 1,728,298
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

A. Robert Allen is a long-time resident of New York City and a higher education professional. A Wave From Mama is his second novel of historical fiction and volume two in his series, Slavery and Beyond. The impetus for the first volume, Failed Moments, was his personal genealogical research, which traced his family tree back hundreds of years and uncovered roots that were White, Black, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish. Failed Moments is a fictional account of his ancestors in 1790 during the slave revolution in what would become Haiti and later in 1863 during New York's Draft Riots.



Find out more about the author and his works at his website: http://arobertallen.com.
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