🌴🌴🌴👻This book sounds interesting because it is set in the same community as a much older book, Porgy by Dubose Heyward, on which the Gershwin opera, Porgy and Bess, is based. This opera is where the song Summertime originated. I think it was the first opera with an all-black cast? The Gullah culture seems to be an amalgam of traditions from West and Central Africa which coalesced on the South East US coast around a shared creole language which retained various features of African languages – a kind of United States of Africa, perhaps? Thanks for the review – intelligent, engaging and full of positive energy!