Stumbling Blocks expands and contextualizes the unpublished works
of the late African American writer Delores Phillips. Born in
Cartersville, Georgia in 1950, Delores Faye Phillips spent much of
her childhood in Georgia before moving to Cleveland, Ohio. Best
known for her 2004 novel The Darkest Child, which follows the Quinn
family as they attempt to survive and escape racism, lynchings, and
poverty in Jim Crow Georgia during the 1950s, Phillips wrote much
more than that. While the novel was met with critical acclaim,
little is known about Phillips herself or about her other writings.
Indeed, in the 2018 reissue of The Darkest Child, Tayari Jones
remarks in the introduction that when she heard Phillips had passed
away in 2014, she was "weighted down with longing for the other
books that she would never write." This volume, then, corrects the
misconception that The Darkest Child was Phillips’s only
published work. Rather, it establishes her as an experienced and
prolific writer who created multi-genre literature throughout her
life. It paints a broader picture of Phillips, who was not just a
novelist but also a poet and short story writer as well. Just as
Alice Walker’s recovery work on Zora Neale Hurston in the 1970s
was critical to a revival and appreciation of Hurston as "a genius
of the South," Stumbling Blocks illuminates and expands the legacy
of an underrepresented writer who is uniquely situated at the
intersections of multiple identities including race, gender,
disability, and region. In addition to the sequel to The Darkest
Child, this collection also includes an unfinished third novel (No
Ordinary Rain), ten poems, seven short stories, contextualizing
essays, and an in-depth biography of Phillips. It is also bookended
by a foreword from Phillips’s sister, Linda Miller, and an
afterword from renowned literary scholar Trudier Harris.
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