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Synopsis
A successful TV producer in Los Angeles, Maxine McCoy finds she must return to her working-class Philadelphia neighborhood to tend to the embittered grandmother who raised her
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Bebe Moore Campbell is a commentator for National Public Radio and a contributing editor for Essence magazine.
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Campbell writes feelingly and humanely about today's African-American women, their relationships, sense of self and connection to their roots. In this novel, a successful TV talk-show producer copes with her straying husband and self-destructive grandmother, a former pop singer, while wrestling with her failed idealism and inability to trust. It is a kind of fantasy in that all the characters, even the less admirable ones, are too good to be true. As narrator, Campbell authentically delivers the African-American cadences in the dialogue that, as a writer, is her principal strength. She also nicely communicates her characters' passions and humor. However, a more accomplished reader would do more justice to the actual characterizations and would give more grace to the descriptive passages. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherWheeler Pub Inc
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1568956134
- ISBN 13 9781568956138
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages441
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Singing in the Comeback Choir
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