Gem of the Ocean

August Wilson First published 2006

About this book

Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, it is chronologically the first work in August Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle dramatizing the African American experience during the 20th century-an unprecedented series that includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Fences and The Piano Lesson. Aunt Esther, the drama's 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life.

Subjects

  • african american families
  • african american neighborhoods
  • african americans
  • drama
  • drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • nineteen hundreds (decade)