"Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard-educated African American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian emigre who also happens to be a lap dancer." "For Windsor this predicament is no laughing matter. Determined to get to the bottom of it, she embarks on a journey into her own rich past to her Motown childhood, where the Temptations danced across the stage and love came disguised as a sharply dressed gangster; to Harvard, where she endured the humiliation of being an unwed black teen mother; to St. Petersburg, where the verses of the brilliant Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, great-grandson of an African slave, moved through her head as she made love to her own white Russian. The urge to protect her son has been Windsor's only goal, but as she draws ever closer to the secret that has cast a shadow over her life, the identity of her son's father, she discovers that the half-lies she has fed her boy don't add up to the beauty of the truth."--BOOK JACKET.

Links of Interest to Readers of Pushkin and the Queen of Spades:

Works by Alexander Pushkin Available Online

Queen of Spades
Negro of Peter the Great (unfinished)
The Bronze Horseman
Boris Godunov
Eugene Oneguine


Information about Pushkin

Pushkin Biography(Knowledgerush.com)
Pushkin Biography(Wikipedia)

Works by Others

Russian Cathedral by Claude McKay

Statues in Pushkin and the Queen of Spades:

The Bronze Horseman in St. Petersburg
The standing DuBois at Fisk University in Nashville
Statue of John Harvard at Harvard University

Windsor’s Visitor’s Guide to Nashville Eating Out

Alas, Martha’s at the Plantation (page 17) closed in early 2009.
However, several of Windsor’s favorite spots are still around...

Margot Café and Bar* (page 43)
1017 Woodland Street
Nashville, TN 37206
615.227.4668
www.margotcafe.com

Sunset Grille
2001 Belcourt Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212
615.386.3663
www.sunsetgrill.com

Brown’s Diner (page 211)
2102 Blair Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37212
615.269.5509
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTGXsFKC6og

Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack
123 Ewing Drive (cross street:Dickerson Road)
Nashville, TN 37207
615.226.9442
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72xXxV9qIPg

The Hermitage Hotel
The Capitol Grille and The Oak Bar
231 Sixth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37219
615.244-2131
www.thehermitagehotel.com

The Schools in Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

Vanderbilt University
The Institute (Montgomery Bell Academy)
Palyprep (Georgetown Day School)
Harvard University

W.E.B. Dubois Links

Biographical Sketch
The Souls of Black Folk

Music in Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

Hip Hop Archive (Harvard Site)
Tupac Shakur Website

Lyrics to Windsor’s favorite songs

Detroit City
Heard it through the Grapevine
You Don’t Know What Love Is
I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die 

Reader's Guide and Recipes

Puskkin and the Queen of Spades Reader’s Guide
Pushkin and the Queen Spades Recipes