Queen: The Story of an American Family is the latest novel by Alex Haley, published in 1993. Following the author's death in 1992, the book's completion was handled by his friend David Stevens. p> Tramamodifies wikitesto
In the novel, the author tells, like with Radici, the other branch of his family, that of his father. Esther is a slave belonging to an Irish Alabama owner, James Jamie Jackson, to whom he joins, after months, a mummified little girl named Queen Victoria, the protagonist of the tale. The novel follows the passing of his years in America, between slavery, civil war, and the ruthless malice of racial intolerance where, after so much suffering and privation, he will find quiet in the encounter and union with Alec Haley, midget and river ferry from which he will have, among many sons, Simon Haley. Simon Haley along with Bertha G. Palmer will have three children: Julius, George and finally Alex, the author of the book. Showing a historical fresco based on memories and oral transmissions that Alex had penned, as with the story of her grandmother Cynthia, telling the story of her other grandmother, Queen Haley.
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