A stray cat the boys name Bird joins their ersatz family, and before you know it, they're all gathered by the radio listening to Joe Louis' championship fight. Hibernia meets the boys while singing with the church choir at a special holiday performance for the orphans.
At Mercy, he becomes friends with Otis, as the two bond over Otis' Philco radio. When he loses, every colored man loses a little piece of his own pride." Andrea Pinkney captures the unique voice of each of the three narrators, whose lives converge at the Mercy home for Negro Orphans, where Willie's mother sends him to escape the abuse of his violent fathers. That boy's fighting for the pride of Negroes. "When Joe Louis fights, it's more than just throwing punches, Otis. All three children idolize Joe Lewis, the Brown Bomber.
Set in 1936, at the height of the Great Depression, Bird in the Box is described by the author as "mostly a book about the power of the human spirit, and of how one man's triumph brought glory to so many people." This moving novel weaves together the story of three different children in Elmira, New York: the sassy Hibernia, the daughter of a reverend, whose mama ran away to New York City right after she was born with dreams of being a jazz singer Willie, who lives with his abusive, drunk father and his suffering mama while he dreams of being a boxer like his idol Joe Louis and Otis, an orphan whose parents were killed in a tragic accident, and who keeps their memories alive by remembering his father's riddle-jokes.
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