Joe Turner's Come and Gone

After false arrest and seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner’s chain gang, Herald Loomis returns to Pittsburgh a free man in search of his wife. “Loomis’ quest for the wife he was torn from takes him and his daughter to a Pittsburgh boarding house,” says USA Today. “There he meets Bynum Walker, an aging conjurer whose singing is thought to have mystical powers. The often tense relationship between African spirituality and Christianity, a key factor in Wilson's work, feeds the interaction between these characters.”