The Threshing Floor

"Jennifer's painful death plunges her lover Hannah on a journey back through their life together. So begins Barbara Burford's touching title story, The Threshing Floor. It is as much a story of two women enriching each other's lives with their imagination and love as that of a Black woman's struggle to name her art and own her creativity. Through the portrayal of different Black women characters, the author presents us with empowering descriptions of their lives. In other stories an older Black woman relfects with bitterness on the plunder of her ancestor's culture ... a young girl finds respite from the mundane and cruel racist daytime world through her dream fantasies ... young Black women find comfort and support in each other ... and women's communities in a visionary future world inspire us"--