The Synchronization of Life

The Synchronization of Life is an American Story. It resonates across racial and ethnic lines as the author, Robert McDaniel Copeland, takes oral family tales and creates a novel that all can relate too. Copeland intertwines two distinct and unique "branches" of his family and looks at the complex, loving, unique, spiritual, and sometimes dysfunctional interactions that were a part of creating many generations of his family that were to follow inclusive of himself. It is a story of an...
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The Synchronization of Life is an American Story. It resonates across racial and ethnic lines as the author, Robert McDaniel Copeland, takes oral family tales and creates a novel that all can relate too. Copeland intertwines two distinct and unique "branches" of his family and looks at the complex, loving, unique, spiritual, and sometimes dysfunctional interactions that were a part of creating many generations of his family that were to follow inclusive of himself. It is a story of an African American family's struggle define itself from the era of post reconstruction to the modern-day era of civil rights in the United State. The author explores the concepts, of racism, colorism and "passing "that many African Americans families have had to address within their family dynamic. The concept of synchronicity resonates and permeates throughout the novel. The characters in the novel are relatable and the reader finds themselves captivated by them as they could imagine them being a part of their own family's experience. Copeland's family becomes our family. The novel is powerful as the author attempts to help us, as the reader, celebrate our commonalities and to explore our differences in the human space.