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The turning point for their relationship was a celebration of Juneteenth Day, a holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when slaves in Texas first learned that the Civil War was over and, two and a half years after the fact, that President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
The griping about Juneteenth even before publication makes it clear that Callahan has taken the side of readers.
The New Yorker excerpts Ralph Ellison's posthumous novel Juneteenth , the story of a boy of mixed race who denies his black heritage and becomes a racist senator.
For me Juneteenth recalled especially Absalom, Absalom!
In an afterword, Callahan says that he took most of Juneteenth from Book II, the strongest and most heavily plotted part of what were apparently intended to be three parts.