Porch Stories: A Grandmother's Guide to Happiness - Hardcover

Rhodes, Jewell Parker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743497112 ISBN 13: 9780743497114

Publisher: Atria, 2006

Synopsis

The award-winning author of Voodoo Dreams shares life lessons culled from the stories told by a grandmother who raised her and four of her other abandoned siblings with love and wisdom in spite of economic disadvantages. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Jewell Parker Rhodes, an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction, including Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass' Women, Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors, and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction, is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and artistic director of the Virginia G. Piper Center in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Review:

"A vivid and affectionate portrait...Grandmother Ernestine is the keeper of wisdom, stories, hopes, and dreams. Thank you, Jewell Parker Rhodes, for sharing her with us."

-- Amy Hill Hearth, coauthor with the Delany Sisters of Having Our Say

"A loving ode to the power and strength of one woman's voice."

-- Gail Tsukiyama, award-winning author of Dreaming Water

"Mystical and down-to-earth...a more coherent and poetic grandmother narrative than most anybody ever had."

-- Lorene Cary, author of Black Ice

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0743497112
• ISBN 13: 9780743497114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176