Shango Son

About the Book

Shango Son is not your traditional Love story. It is a sense tingling depiction of the love between a mother and son, as the pair tries to find themselves in the midst of ancestral misperception. Athena the main character is an African American woman born in the era of revolutionary hip hop to a multi-cultural afro-Caribbean family. Athena’s Caribbean blood line runs deeply in her veins however growing up in Brooklyn NY USA has made her foreign to her roots. Her addiction to her teenage love gave life to a son, the realities of parenthood and the consequences of lust in addition to the formation of another cultural identity. As life forces Athena to address her roots she finds that the story of the slave brings her Caribbean and American cultures together causing her to realize that her lack of knowledge about her history has disturbing consequences. Athena struggles with her sons needs as Tim stumbles blindly through a lack of self-affirmation into his own manhood. In the end the love between the two has made them spiritually connected in a way that supersedes death.

About the Author

Dian Frankson is an urban fiction author from Brooklyn NY. Ms. Frankson was born to an Afro-Caribbean family and lived in Brooklyn through a number of its racial and economic transformations. MS Frankson has had a long standing love affair with books and the art of writing. Involved in community activism from her childhood a history of domestic violence forced MS Frankson to put her literary dreams, and community activist exploits aside for the needs of her family. As a young mother she moved into NYC housing projects to raise her children where she continued to witness the social constructs that as she would say " Kept man from living up to its full potential. MS Frankson earned an associate degree in education, but when the demands of family, work, and the student teaching requirements of a bachelors in Education conflicted she went on to earn a bachelors and then masters degree in health care administration to support her more than twelve year work experience in the health care industry. However Ms Frankson has now returned to her roots sharing her experiences and giving voice to the stories of her America both on her blog, www.redbrickstories.wordpress.com and in her books. Her stories are true life fictions, written about the socio-political topics that have impacted the lives of the people around her.