I Listened, Momma - Softcover

Campbell, Darlene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615575315 ISBN 13: 9780615575315

Publisher: Old Seventy Creek Press, 2011

Synopsis

"You can tell that Darlene Franklin-Campbell is a poet right from the get-go. Her descriptions are so evocative they just sing off the page. This bittersweet tale of a poor Kentucky family and their loves and losses is told by Nochipa (Chippie) whose father is Mexican and whose mother is white. Racial tensions from both within the family and in the wider community run high. But somehow the family survives and comes through it all despite the odds. I Listened, Momma isn’t the sort of novel where everything is all tied up at the end with a pretty little bow. A cousin is suspected of causing a death but escapes the justice he probably deserves. Central characters pass away. This isn’t a sugar-coated reality, but authentic and honest; something of a modern day Little Women. If the quality of the story-telling alone wasn’t sufficient to persuade you that this book is worth buying, all author proceeds are being donated to Relay for Life in honor of her own father...." --- Kate Blackman Editorial Services

About this title

From the Author:

Sometimes I sat at my computer and cried as I wrote this book. Other times I laughed out loud. I spent so much time with these characters that they became real to me. Then when my dad was diagnosed with cancer, I knew that the only RIGHT thing to do with this story was to make it an offering of blessing and hope. ALL, that's right, every cent of my royalties from this story, go to fight cancer. So, buy it, read it, enjoy it and KNOW that you are doing something to help others.

From the Back Cover:

With characters so real they seem to be made of breath and bone, Campbell draws us into the nucleus of this Appalachian family as if we are relatives. We feel their heartaches and yearn for their healing as though our own happiness depends on theirs. This is Southern fiction at its finest.
                                                                           Sandra Kring, author The Book of Bright

About this edition

• Publisher: Old Seventy Creek Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0615575315
• ISBN 13: 9780615575315
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304