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    Madewell Brown
    Madewell Brown
    Madewell Brown
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    Madewell Brown

    By Rick Collignon

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    As recorded in Rick Collignon’s second novel,
    Perdido, a tall black man with one arm longer than
    the other walked into Guadalupe, New Mexico one
    morning about 50 years ago, stayed pretty much
    to himself for seven years, and then walked back
    out of town. No one knew who he was or what
    became of him.
    Now, as his last act, an old man named Ruffino
    Trujillo tells his grown son Cipriano a story about
    what became of the black man. After Ruffino’s
    death, Cipriano discovers an old canvas bag
    bearing the name of Madewell Brown. Inside are
    a hand-carved doll, an old blanket, an unlabeled
    photo of a Negro League baseball team, and a
    small, yellowing envelope that was never posted.
    Thinking it the least he can do, Cipriano mails the
    letter. When it arrives in Cairo, Illinois, it comes
    into the hands of a young woman named Rachael,
    who believes it is from her lost grandfather. She
    believes this because of all that she’s been told by
    the raggedy old man who taught her everything:
    Obie Poole, who was Madewell’s friend and the
    orphaned Rachael’s anchor, the man who gives this
    eloquent novel its authentic sense of history lived.
    Drawn magically forward on Rick Collignon’s
    direct and haunting prose, we follow Rachael to
    Guadalupe in search of her own identity and we
    watch as Cipriano tries to make sense of the story
    his father told him about a dead man who didn’t
    belong there.
    This fourth installment in Collignon’s beloved
    Guadalupe series is as magical as its predecessors,
    as emotionally honest, as surprising and it firmly
    establishes Rick Collignon as a master American
    storyteller.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnbridled Books
    Release dateMay 1, 2009
    ISBN9781936071432
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      A very interesting book. It seemed to take a long time to get to the point but it was worthwhile in the end. I must say I was surprised at the ending. I should have seen it coming, but I didn't. An elderly man befriends an orphan and tells her stories of how he played baseball long, long ago with her grandfather that she never knew anything about. The other side of the story takes place in Mexico with a man who has as many questions needing answers for himself as the girl does.

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