But they have become a kind of family by choice, looking out for each other as they try to navigate the highs and lows of Harlem in 1930.
The gay designer, the singer-showgirl, the neighborhood doctor, and a family planning crusader aren’t blood relatives. The characters in Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky are caught somewhere between the creative, hopeful heaven of the Harlem Renaissance and the hellish economic collapse of the Great Depression.
