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The author recounts her relationship with her father, one that took place largely during the summer when they vacationed together, discussing how this shaped her as an adult and a woman
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. . . Unforgettable."
--Bharati Mukherjee
The New York Times Book Review
"A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT . . . . While Sweet Summer is infused with experiences unique to African-American culture, it speaks to the universals of human experience."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
Written with the narrative force of fiction and the lyrical motion of poetry, SWEET SUMMER is Bebe Moore Campbell's elegy to her extraordinary father. Though she lived with her devoted mother and grandmother in the North most of the year, Campbell spent the summers with her father in the South--a man of gargantuan appetites and boundless exuberance. To his daughter, he was a magical presence.
A bittersweet evocation of a divided childhood with its family secrets, surprising discoveries, loneliness, and love, SWEET SUMMER also recalls living on the cusp of the social revolution of the 1960s. Most of all, it is an achingly honest and beautiful reminder of the universal challenge of
About the Author
Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. She is a frequent contributor to NPR's "Morning Edition" and is a contributing editor to Essence magazine.
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- PublisherPutnam Adult
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0399134158
- ISBN 13 9780399134159
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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