Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
"ABSORBING...COMPELLING...HIGHLY SATISFYING."--San Francisco Chronicle"TRULY ENGAGING...Campbell has a storyteller's ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place....There's a steam that keeps the story moving as the characters, and later their children, wrestle through...
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"ABSORBING...COMPELLING...HIGHLY SATISFYING."--San Francisco Chronicle"TRULY ENGAGING...Campbell has a storyteller's ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place....There's a steam that keeps the story moving as the characters, and later their children, wrestle through racial, personal and cultural crisis."--Los Angeles Times Book Review"REMARKABLE...POWERFUL."--Time"YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE is rich, lush fiction set in rural Mississippi beginning in the mid-'50s. It is also a haunting reality flowing through Anywhere, U.S.A., in the '90s....There's love, rage and hatred, winning and losing, honor, abuse; in other words, humanity....Campbell now deserves recognition as the best of storytellers. Her writing sings."--The Indianapolis News"EXTRAORDINDARY."--The Seattle Times"A COMPELLING NARRATIVE...Campbell is a master when it comes to telling a story."--Entertainment WeeklyYOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE won the NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Work of Fiction
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345401120 (0345401123)
ASIN: 345401123
Publish date: June 27th 1995
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Novels,
Urban Fantasy,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
African American,
Contemporary,
Female Authors
amazing book but having to hear all of my white classmates dissect race was grueling.