By Jarrett Robinson

An African-American kinfolk migrates from a rural Mississippi city to the town of "Big Shoulders" throughout the interval of the "Great Migration" in look for a greater existence. in the course of their lives within the "Windy urban, they witness the start of the Civil Rights circulation, homicide, the evolving of the robust Chicago road Gangs, Riots, Drug dependancy, blues song, prejudgement, and heartbreak. trying to find a manner via all of it, the kinfolk reveals the way to stick jointly and live to tell the tale via many "forks" of their street. With all of them having "The Blues", all of them create how to care for their brief comings. within the end,valuable classes are discovered, which will get them to their subsequent aspect. all of them discover that their "Blues" could be by no means finishing. period of time is from 1954-1973.

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