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Returning to visit their dying mother, Ralph, a successful playwright, and Iris, a jazz singer, look back on the large influence Sissie has had on both of them
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Originally published in 1963, this fine novel tells the story of Sissie Joplin and two of her children, Iris and Ralph. The relations among these three main characters are a network of love and disappointment, good intentions and sometimes painful results. As the book begins, Iris returns from Europe to go with her brother to their mother's hospital bed in Los Angeles. From that point~ we experience Iris' success as a jazz singer in Europe and her estrangement from her mother and Ralph's troubled childhood, his killing of a menacing white bigot in the navy, his psychiatric problems, and his success as a playwright. We suffer through the painful compron-tises and struggles of Sissie's first marriage to Big Ralph, who has trouble retaining his manhood in the white dominated culture that denies it. Finally, Sissie and her two children reunite for the first time in several years. Ralph and Iris, full of sweet and bitter memories, wonder whether they can make peace with her, and we learn more about Sissie in a remarkable re-creation of jumbled memories and rationalizations as she lies in her hospital bed. This rich, powerful story is told in clean, direct prose--no flashy experiments, no straining for effects. Williams reveals the truth of these people's lives in the way good novels have always done. Highly recommended for all collections. -- From Independent Publisher
From Publishers Weekly
Two siblings, who have been both helped and hindered by their mother's forceful character, pay her a deathbed visit in what PW called "a tense novel about the imprint of discrimination upon a vivid, stormy family of black Americans."
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- PublisherThunder's Mouth Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0938410660
- ISBN 13 9780938410669
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages278
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