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Summary: Atlanta native
Review: The best part of the book are all the references in it to Atlanta places and the West End. It was fun to read about all the places in and around the West End, if you grew up in the ATL. The book overall was a bit disappointing. Not what I thought it would be as I read through chapter after chapter. The ending was okay, but left you feeling a bit "flat" and did not end as I expected. This was not what I expected for a Peal C book.
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Summary: Interesting read
Review: This book was a good interesting, steady read..I love Pearl Cleage's characters in all her novels because they are so strong. Its like reading a daily journal or commentary of a person you have looked up to and admired the most. This book also had a touch of everything -a little humor, suspense & romance..I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Great Reading
Review: This was a great read - so thoroughly enjoyable I could not put it down until I finished it. I hope Pearl continues with these characters in a later novel. Everyone wants a new superhero i.e. Shaft 2003.
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Summary: And You Do Them Anyway...
Review: Wonderful book. I will admit that the story was a bit hard to take. I was going to write it off as melodramatic; a writer writing about what she wishes were true rather than what is. Then it occurred to me that I was railing against this story because Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings won't let me believe that Black Men like the character Blue really do exist. I am still fighting the conditioning and the subliminal messages of the dominant culture that tell me, "Brothers ain't no good." We don't see them, and maybe that is the intent (to not be seen), but there are Black Men who believe in taking care of and taking charge of their communities. Ms. Cleage presents this story easily and mystically with a backdrop of reincarnation thrown in. It works. It works beautifully. My spirit and belief in Black Men has been ignited even further. The only criticism I have is that we didn't see more of the main character's struggle with sobriety. Wonderful, magical and empowering novel.
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