PROUD's Denise Nicholas Authors Novel

Denise Nicholas has added author to her long list of credits. Publishers Weekly describes her new novel Freshwater Road:

"In her rich, absorbing debut, actress Nicholas (Room 222; In the Heat of the
Night) follows a young woman South to "trench Mississippi, gutbucket
Mississippi" during the summer of 1964. The daughter of a Detroit bar
owner/numbers runner and his estranged, class-conscious ex-wife (whose light
complexion enables her to pass as white), Celeste Tyree has enjoyed a
comfortable, sheltered middle-class life for all of her nearly two decades. ...
Sometimes gorgeous, sometimes terrifying, this novel marks the debut of a
talented writer."