This was my first time reading Terry McMillan, and I so wanted to enjoy Georgia and her motley assortment of zany daughters, parents, neighbors, best friends, co-workers, and former lovers. Alas, it was not to be. Disappointingly, many of Mcmillan’s innumerable characters were never fully realized enough for me to get a grip on who they […]
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Sixty years ago today, Rosa Parks got herself booted off a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, some say deliberately, sparking the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and leading to millions of citizens of this country, including me, being able to sit anywhere they please on public transportation. Go Rosa! While Rosa is credited with this
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Gus and Emma Jean Peace marry for less than perfect reasons (neither has expectations that they will be able to get a better marriage partner) in 1930′s Arkansas , and start a family increasingly populated with boys. Emma Jean, desperate to have a girl child on whom she can lavish the love that she never
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In Renee Swindle’s new novel, Shake Down the Stars, Piper Nelson’s life has been in a slow but steady downward spiral since a tragic death in her family five years before. While Piper used to be a dedicated teacher and role model for the students in her high school English classes, she has dipped into
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In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks author Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman who escaped an arduous life picking cotton – on the same farmland that her family worked as slaves – to move to Baltimore, Maryland. Though she had a troubled marriage to her first cousin, David Lacks,
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