The Cards Don't Lie: A Novel

The Cards Don't Lie: A Novel1814: Its the third year of the United States second War of Independence. The British are on the verge of capturing the strategically important port of New Orleans. In the midst of the Americans chaotic preparations for battle, three women play key roles in the defense of the city: Catherine, a free woman of color, voodoo priestess, and noted healer personally summoned by General Andrew Jackson; Marguerite, a pampered Creole plantation mistress prone

Just a roof over their heads

This is the story of Cassius X over 12 months in Miami

the friends have always been there for each other—through the highs and lows of life and love

Babies not being born

It is based on the politics of memory of different corporate groups (elites and subordinates

This book attempts to define the cinematic institution in Africa and argues that its pluralistic nature

through the clouds

and be unafraid of being wrong

and the cost of Black female defiance

Miles Morales

But success comes at a price that threatens to shatter their love

*Includes pictures of Smith