This book, from the first line, is a heartbreaking page-turner. The world evoked captures beautifully what it means to live with family secrets, and This book, from the first line, is a heartbreaking page-turner. The world evoked captures beautifully what it means to live with family secrets, and what it takes to triumph over them. I loved the 80's Atlanta setting, and the portrayal of longing between sisters who cannot fully be sisters to one another. It stakes out new ground that we don't get to see enough -- complex family dynamics within a black middle-class milieu. I just read it again, and it moved me all over again....more
I finally took the time to read this book cover-to-cover after it sat on my shelf for two years, and I'm awed, grateful and humbled by the exhaustive I finally took the time to read this book cover-to-cover after it sat on my shelf for two years, and I'm awed, grateful and humbled by the exhaustive research, the deep empathy that runs through it, the potent stories of three remarkable lives, the winning structure and the extraordinary contribution this book is to American history. Wow....more
This book, when I read it as a child sometime in the early 70's, changed my life. I didn't know, before then, that there was such a thing as a novel wThis book, when I read it as a child sometime in the early 70's, changed my life. I didn't know, before then, that there was such a thing as a novel with a little black girl as a protagonist. I decided right then and there: I wanted to be a writer, tell my own little-girl story....more
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