With striking lyricism, Diane McKinney-Whetstone keenly guides us through the world of community, family, and the human heart.

Tumbling is a beautiftilly rendered, poignant story about the ties that bind us and the secrets that keep us apart. Tumbling by Diane McKinney-Whetstone audiobook. Unexpectedly, Noon rises up and takes the lead in the opposition, fighting for all she's worth to keep her family and community together. Tumbling is a national best-seller from an exhilarating new voice in African-American fiction. When a road planned by the city council threatens to break up this South Philadelphia neighborhood, the community must band together. While she seeks salvation in the church, Herbie gains sexual gratification in the arms of a bewitching jazz singer named Ethel, a woman who profoundly affects both Noon's and Herbie's lives when she leaves with them, first, a baby girl and then later, a five-year-old named Liz. Its central characters, Herbie and Noon, are a loving but unconventional couple whose marriage remains unconsummated for many years as Noon struggles to repossess her sexuality after a brutal attack in her past. The author of the critically acclaimed novels Tumbling, Tempest Rising, Blues Dancing, Leaving Cecil Street, and Trading Dreams at Midnight, Diane McKinney.

Tumbling, then, is a neighborhood novel built around family narrative, an expressive. Tumbling is a beautifully rendered, poignant story about the ties that bind us and the secrets that keep us apart. Diane McKinney-Whetstone's lyrical first novel, Tumbling, vividly captures a tightly knit African-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the forties and fifties. There is no runaway scene in Diane McKinney-Whetstones Tumbling.