![]() ![]() ![]() Before she knew him personally, though, Randall said she knew him through his words. Johnson also ran a dance school, where Randall took classes as a child. The book’s narrator is Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson, who was a gossip and entertainment columnist for the Michigan Chronicle. Stateside spoke with Randall about her new book, as well as fiction’s role in enriching historical records. She is best known for The Wind Done Gone, a satire of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind. ![]() Randall was born in Detroit and currently lives in Nashville, where she is a writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University. Many of the saints are based on real people, and they give voice to a place that continues to influence Detroit, and the rest of the world, today. The book is structured like a book of saints in the Catholic tradition. That’s what happens in author Alice Randall’s latest novel Black Bottom Saints, which draws from the experiences of Black Detroiters who lived in the city’s historic Black Bottom neighborhood. Sometimes fiction tells new truths about history. ![]()
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