Ashes of Greenwood: A Novel Based on the Tulsa Massacre

By G.L. Henderson

This is a novel about all that was stolen, and about the fierce remnants the fire could never claim.

In 1921, Greenwood, Oklahoma, known as Black Wall Street, was one of the most prosperous Black communities in America. Within hours, it was reduced to ash. A hundred years later, Maya inherits more than just her great-grandmother's house. Tucked away inside are diaries that draw her into a night thick with smoke and gunfire, and into a family saga that weaves across generations, bloodlines, and the delicate line between Black and Native land.

Through Evelyn Whitfield's eyes, the Tulsa Race Massacre becomes heartbreakingly real, not just history, but a mother racing through flames with her children in her arms. Through Maya, we discover the price of unearthing truths that were meant to remain hidden.

Ashes of Greenwood travels between terror and memory, between a community nearly erased and a family determined to endure. It is not just a story of loss, but of what endures when everything else is reduced to ash.

For readers of The Vanishing Half, Homegoing, and The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GCZ1J9C4
• ISBN13: 9798994289242
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: G.L. Henderson
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"