Showing results for "Boat" in African American

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Memphis, 1876. Reconstruction is collapsing, and Cleet Oakley — born the property of another man — now owns a whiskey distillery, a riverboat, and a lumber yard. He has money, papers, and a name on a deed. What he does not have is an hour of the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Tennessee, 1866. The Thirteenth Amendment has been ratified. The papers say Cleet is a free man. Freedom, he is learning, is not a thing you are handed — it is a thing you have to build, board by board, on ground that does not want you standing on it...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The story of Cleet and Hattie Marie continues. Two years after walking off a Mississippi plantation, Cleet has built something impossible: a thriving whiskey distillery, a growing family, and a life that finally feels like his own. But peace draws...

This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains. Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.