Ingrid Landis-Davis

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This is a rich and layered tale about legacy, service, creativity, loss, and love, and about the importance of connection—to history, to family, to place, to community.     The author explores how kin pass down legacies of integrity, joy, and strength and, yes, sometimes sorrow.  This sweeping story of a Black family from the South focuses on resilience and love.  Engaging characters keep a complex multigenerational plot moving to embody hundreds of years of American and Black history.  It is a parable of how shared events can ripple across generations.  This novel weave together personal histories and the legacies that came before us with an expansive story about family, hidden stories, and life’s journey.

The protagonist’s rendering of our world, whether the exterior landscapes of the rugged mountains of Northern California or the rich cultural portraits of the interior of Hawaiian homes, it truly takes you on a journey. Rooted in specific American places and historical tragedies, she braids stories of the struggles and perseverance of her African American family in distant centuries with those of more recent eras with remarkable dexterity. Her characters are thoroughly lyrical, kahu hanai, and dazzling with the light of new insights into problems as old as the nation, yet still relevant for today.   Her characters show the many ways that the past resurfaces in the present as unfinished business.  

The author’s previous novel, Short Side of the Triangle, is the prequel to this story but itis a tale that stands on its own.  This is a uniquely American story that all need to read—it holds a piece of each of us. 

In the 1940s pre-civil rights south, this novel tells the struggles of a young WWII hero and local star athlete’s attempt to pursue his baseball career and the love of his life, amid interference from his family. After returning home to Durham, NC as a World War II hera and his community’s favorite son, Warren Dean Stroud struggles to rebuild his life and baseball career in the Negro Leagues. His romantic pursuit of Alicia Henderson, a beautiful but strong-headed young woman, does not meet with the approval of his doting sisters. His oldest sister Iola, does not like Alicia’s family, so she and her best friend, Emma Webb, conspire to interfere with the relationship and link him with Calli Dey, Emma’s niece. In the cultural flavor and rhythm of the emerging black middle class of the post WWII south, this tale delves into the delicate balance of love, family, ambition and the missteps that lead from opportunity to disaster.

Ingrid Landis-Davis has published a novel, Short Side of the Triangle; a cookbook, Exotic Soul Kitchen; and a poetry collection, Blues Child’s~Verse to Song. She has extensive nonprofit, corporate and community outreach experience, including an excellent background in publishing, media, editing, grant writing, grant administration, public relations and public speaking.

Appearances and Event activities at following Book Festivals and Writers Conferences:
Miami Book Festival; Northern Calif. Writers Conference; Maui Writers Conference;
Savannah Book Festival; Southwest Florida Book Festival; Tampa Bay Black Heritage
Festival; Free Library of Philadelphia Writers Festival; Georgia Writers Assoc.
Conference; Decatur/AWC Book Festival; Essence Music Festival; National Book Club
Conference; various bookstore signings at Borders, B&N, other locations and events

• Written Corporate Profiles, Marketing and Promotional packages for the following Professional Associations and their publications:
  California Forestry Association – California Forests Magazine
  California Dental Association – CDA Journal, CDA Update, CDA Convention Guides
  Associated General Contractors of California – California Constructor Magazine
  Association of Certified Fraud Specialists – Convention Guide
  Cedar Mountain Park Homeowners Association – HOA Newsletter
  13th Congressional District Committee – GA
• Worked with the following publications in Public Relations and Marketing packaging:
  Pacific Business News
  Florida Trend Magazine
  Tampa Bay Business Weekly
  Florida Business Magazine
  Sacramento News & Review
  MotherWit Magazine
• Winner of two Addy Awards for copy and promotion concept
• Owned and managed of an advertising agency & marketing firm
• Experienced in sponsorship and media development
• Grant writer and administrator for small government agencies and non-profit foundations:
  Trinity County (CA) Grants Administration
  Watershed Research and Training Center
  Post Mountain Public Utility District
  Foundation Stone for Family Preservation