Margaret Wrinkle’s TRUE FOR SURE, set in 1823 on the Tennessee frontier, is the story of a young black man named Wash who is forced to work as a stud in the breeding of slaves by his owner, troubled Revolutionary War veteran Richardson, whose debt and isolation lead him into an uneasy intimacy with both Wash and an enslaved healer named Pallas as she inspires Wash to transcend his harsh reality by forging an understanding of his shamanic African inheritance, all told through a delicate love story unfolding against this historically harrowing period to Elisabeth Schmitz at Grove Atlantic in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (world English)
