A Mississippi black girl, born and raised, Zarah's looks defy expectations about how a black woman should look. Despite her appearance, with two black parents, she is black, proud, and bold. A college student and host of her own radio show, she broadcasts, far and wide, she's "the blackest black chick you could ever meet." Viewing all whites the way her parents viewed them when they were growing up in the 1960s Deep South, Zarah's racial identity is "black first." But, wanting to be a magazine journalist, in Mississippi, means one thing. She'll have to work for a white-owned company. Even though her lifelong dream is to start her own magazine, she has much to learn. So. With several big decisions to make, she chooses to go after getting needed work experience.
Then she meets the handsome, non-conformist owner of Wilson Publishing Inc. A man best described as "radical." A man who seems markedly different from what she expected. Her love for magazine journalism leads to an internship at his company, and, soon, internship success leads to a job offer and the possibility of a future at WPI. Ultimately, it all leads to blossoming love. But, falling for the last man on Earth she ever expected to fall for creates in her life all kinds of questions and problems she has no idea how to deal with. What looks like the best thing that ever happened to her, some days, also looks like the worst.
Silver Waves of Turbulence takes readers on an exciting, fast-moving three-year excursion through a young woman's life as her beliefs collide with long-held ideas about racial identity, truth, history, and love. In an unexpected story, Silver questions the concept of racial identity and "passing." It asks whether it is possible to change many of society's long-held beliefs, and if love can survive, thrive, and flourish when it's forced to battle wave after wave of turbulence.
