Ashes of Greenwood

In 1921, Greenwood, Oklahoma known as Black Wall Street was one of the most prosperous Black communities in America. Within hours, it was reduced to ash.

Ashes of Greenwood is a sweeping, intimate novel that moves between the terror of that night and the generations shaped by what survived it. Through the eyes of Evelyn Whitfield, a young mother caught in the fires of the Tulsa Race Massacre, and Maya, her great-granddaughter uncovering long-buried diaries a century later, the novel traces how memory endures when history tries to erase it.

As Evelyn runs through smoke and gunfire clutching her children, love and sacrifice take form in the smallest, most human acts. Decades later, Maya's search for truth leads her back to Greenwood, where family stories intersect with Native land, preserved artifacts, and the fragile line between silence and remembrance.

Rooted in meticulous research and guided by narrative responsibility, Ashes of Greenwood is not only a story of devastation, but of resilience of the bonds that cross generations, cultures, and time. This is a novel about what was taken.
And about what the fire could not take.