East to the Bottom

Calley is haunted by her ancestors. In the hospital for a routine procedure, she loses consciousness and is spiritually taken to mid nineteenth century Georgetown. Here, the story of Sophia Johnson and her Georgetown/Foggy Bottom descendants' trials and tribulations begin. Their tales depict how certain family members touched U.S. historic events, and how those events touched them. With Calley, the reader traverses from 1857 to the present, through the streets of black Georgetown and Foggy Bottom, while tales of romance, war, suffrage, racketeering, and murder are yarned. As readers cross the threshold into the Johnson's home, they are certain to experience this country's seeming typical yet unique African American family--the strength of its past not to be forgotten, the power of its future to be forever present.