Yvonne Battle-Felton's "Curdle Creek," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Curdle Creek: A Novel by Yvonne Battle-Felton.

About the book, from the publisher:

Curdle Creek, the film, would be set in a rural town with grand houses on one side and smaller houses on the other. One of the houses would be a big pink and white Victorian house similar to the one I grew up in. The rest would look bespoke with handcrafted embellishments, a lion or two on a stoop. The town would be clean swept and nearly festive. It would look like a self-sustaining town with local shops all along Main Street, a bustling Town Hall, a farm or two, one stop light, and an abundance of bells. On the surface, Curdle Creek could be any rural town.

Osirus would be played by Denzel Washington and have more lines in the movie than he does in the book. Angela Bassett would play Constance or Mother Opal. Both are powerful characters and because she is Angela Bassett...[read on]

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My Book, The Movie: Curdle Creek.

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