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A Different Drummer
A Different Drummer | William Melvin Kelley
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Unwilling to live in a society based on inequality, a Southern Black burns his land and home and departs for the North with his family
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A Different Drummer | William Melvin Kelley
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It‘s too easy to say that we can, one day, just reject the ties that hold us in place, leave, and never look back.
In that sense what Tucker does, and inspires, isn‘t as radical as all the white folk want to believe, but also is. He thought about the whys and moved on anyway.

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A Different Drummer | William Melvin Kelley

Kelley's debut novel remains his best known. Drawing comparisons to Faulkner, Kelley telks the story of a black man, Tucker Caliban, who sparks a mass exodus of African Americans from a fictitious Southern state, through the eyes of a series of white characters.

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